Reply to So sad for my son

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "So sad for my son"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the age where sports begin to get competitive, grade six. My son loves his particular sport and is good at it but is not apparently part of the "cool" clique of kids who also play, who are exceptionally good. He is not being played as often by the coach (who is, apparently the parent of a "cool" kid), has been told by other players that he doesn't deserve to be on the team, isn't getting the ball as much, et cetera. Basically he feels excluded by a sport he enjoys and kids who are nicer/don't trash talk do not play the sport, so he is left either playing alone or participating on a team where he feels unwelcome. And it is past the age where everyone has to get "along." Over break son found out a bunch of kids from the team went to a certain camp, he also went, they all carpooled and he ended up coming home in tears because they trash talked him. But it seems too old for a parent to step in (not to mention would raise the ire of the kids). Any advice on how to handle this sports trash talk and clique-ness? [/quote]

Get him to play Ultimate Frisbee.  Nicest and most welcoming kids you will find anywhere in any sport.[/quote]

This.  Are you really shocked OP? Or just hoped your son would be one of the “cool guys” so it wouldn’t be a problem. It’s like when someone comes on here complaining about mean girls/moms at their DD competitive dance or gymnastics studio. Duh.

[/quote]

You seem charming. No, I hoped he'd play a sport he both loved where kids were kind. SILLY ME[/quote]

6tj grade is when this starts. Boys can be very mean (just like girls). Keep an eye on this if your son stays. Who is the ringleader? If not the coach’s kid he might be more responsive. You can’t talk to the coach about playing time at all obvi. [/quote]

I’d bet ringleader is coach’s kid or coach’s buddy’s kid (or the coach would’ve done something about it already). When this happened to my DS it was with coach’s son as ringleader. Stopped once they brought on a paid coach and the kid knew he couldn’t get away with it anymore. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics