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Thank you!  I appreciate this post so much.

I also yelled to my kid, “Larla, be ready!”  Or, “Larla, get it!”  She’s seven and sometimes gets distracted.  But maybe my attempts at encouragement were not helpful.

While it wasn’t as bad as the criticisms the other parent yelled, my encouragement may have been misplaced.

Thank you!
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Parents are often most aware if their young kid is not paying attention.  First - parents are watching their own kid.  Second - parents recognize signs of their own kid not paying attention.  So - yes, a yell to Larla to dig in or play hard, not a problem.

We were just discussing a teammate of one of my kids about 20 years ago.  His father had played for Liverpool as a young man.  When the kid was playing with my son he had an older brother playing at Norte Dame.  Obviously a big soccer family.  But, the boy on my kid’s team was not a great player.  Great kid, really.  He and my son were friends and hung out off the field.  He had some minor ADD going on which at 12/13 is fairly common.   His dad was always great though standing on the side with the rest of us parents.  The only thing directed towards his kid was, from time to time, he might yell “xxxxx what can you do to help?” when his kid was, to him, lost on the field.  I always liked that approach.  “What can you do to help?”

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