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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what they are writing, but if it were me, I'd write things like...

Player A - knocked over other boy and then laughed at boy on ground. Mother cheered son on.
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I may have actually also witnessed that!  My DS also tried out for the Stodder Travel team (U9) this week.  We love the Stoddert approach, program, and staff, so we really hope that we make at least one of the travel teams (there is an A, B, and C team).  But the odds are against all of us (over 200 kids).  Anyway, I'm posting because like PP, I was appalled at a few of the parents.  Yes, most were well behaved and friendly and if they were stage mothers and fathers among the crowd, most did a good job of suppressing those tenedencies.

But 2 fathers really stuck out for their inability to suppress their stage father tendencies.  I was really hoping the Stoddert staff would have noticed and told them to stop coaching their sons and yelling from the sidelines.  But I think with so many kids out there, they either didn't notice, or didn't have time to deal with it.  I'm not going to name any of the kids' names, to protect the truly innocent, but if your husband is French speaking (or has a French sounding accent) and was wearing a backpack, or if your husband was wearing a bright blue shirt with a very pronounced pot belly and wrap around sunglasses, you should know that they both really stuck out for their obnoxiousness.  I believe, but am not sure, that both of these fathers had kids at the Key Academy in DC.  For most of the 2 hours, these fathers were joined at the hip, standing right on the edge of the field near one of the goals.  Not only were they coaching from the sidelines, they were berating their children and clearly had no sense that their comments could at times be interpreted as open and loud criticism of the other children.  I hope this aspect of their personalities only comes out rarely.  And for the sake of those families and kids who do make the team, I sure hope yours don't.

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