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[quote=Anonymous]Again, I strongly encourage everyone to chat among yourselves.  Cheer a goal or good save briefly. But don’t say anything to players, refs or coaches during the game.  Try it out.  You will be surprised how much better the games get if you relax.  I figure I have watched my kids play in a 1000 games.  A few “big games” and the vast majority meaning nothing.  A kid playing youth soccer now is probably in for 30 or so games a year.  That’s a couple hundred by the time they are 13. Add in siblings and you could be watching hundreds of games very easily.

So - take it easy.  Relax. Don’t yell.  Talk to parents on the side line.  Talk to the other teams parents.  It makes everything way more enjoyable and your kid will like it better too.  Really.  Try it out.

Finally I know one dad pretty well.  He always fretted about calls, where he daughter was playing, how she was doing in the game.  I coached his daughter in kindergarten soccer.  Over the years they played on some club teams together and they played against each other in college a couple of times.  By u11 or so when Dad made it to a game he always brought a dog (various ones over the years).  They would go for walks and watch the game from a distance.  He said he never could watch from the side or the stands without yelling so he came to love watching from a bit of a distance.  You do what works.

As an aside:  his daughter was the same age as my kid but a year ahead in school.  She was on my kid’s kindergarten team though, and years later she had graduated from college but had come back to visit friends and happened to be at my daughter’s last college game - my kid’s team was playing her school.   I sent her dad a picture that we took after the game of the two.  It was very cool.

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