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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't feel bad if you don't attend games.

Read the book by Mike Matheny who was the Manager of the St Louis Cardinals, but decided to coach his kid's youth baseball team for a while.

It is a bit heavy on religion, but he quotes some very interesting statistics.

Many of his players and youth players in general don't care if their parent attends...and if they do attend they don't want to hear them say anything.  Literally, the #1 answer by far when asked "what do you want your parents to do at games?" was "nothing...talk to other parents or don't come at all".

His kids' team was maybe 13/14, so probably when they view parent's attendance a bit differently.[/quote]

Yep this has generally been my (3) kids’ opinion. They genuinely don’t care one way or the other if we attend games (each plays a travel and rec sport). They told DH to quiet down with the “helpful” suggestions during games years ago, and he listened. Many parents do not- their kids are usually embarrassed.

Sometimes DH attends, sometimes I attend, sometimes we both do, sometimes neither.

DS13 has a tournament in our hometown this weekend. 3 game minimum and they may play up to 5 games (likely). NO way will I be attending all 5 games! We have 2 other kids, and other things to get done this weekend. I’ll attend a game or 2 probably. DH probably will also. But if something comes up- who knows. Same for most of the other parents. We all help each other out with carpooling etc.

DS is happy being with his friends and having $$ for the snack bar between games. We support him but it is his game and his hobby- not ours. [/quote]

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