While this does occur in all youth sports, I think it's especially bad with soccer because so many parents do not understand the game the way they do sports like baseball and basketball.

They get excited when something "big" happens like when someone just boots it down the field. Or when anyone gets knocked to the ground "hey!" it must be a foul. They have no idea that just booting it to the other team is bad, and contact is part of soccer not everything is a foul.

Imagine how silly you'd look watching baseball and cheering for a big popup to the infield that everyone knows will be an out. Or yelling shoot it in basketball every time a kid touches the ball at half court.

Anonymous wrote:OMG, yes! It's so annoying. Stop yelling "hustle buddy" and "defense" to a bunch of 6 year olds who don't know what that means. Please stop, you're super annoying and everybody hates you for it.

Oh buddy... You're in for a real rough decade plus of youth sports if you're burnt out at 6yo rec sidelines shenanigans.

It is just code words.

Example- ball is booted down field to a player on the other team.

This is called “NICE” and a as parent you are expected to say it.

I am not a big sports person but my kids play so I go to the games. Most of the parents are crazy. They cannot control themselves.

Hockey parent here and it happens there too. I am all for getting caught up in the excitement and cheering your kids on, but when parents are negative and criticizing their or other people’s children, that’s too much. Oh, and the angry parents do come across as a little psycho.

Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with those soccer parents who are yelling non-stop "encouragements" from the sidelines. The kids (a) can't hear them and (b) wouldn't care if they could hear them - which they mostly can't.

Half the stuff they say is just bizarre too, like another language. Why not just sit quietly and clap or cheer on occasion when it's warranted?

This does not happen in any other sport. I find those parents who just yap at the field non-stop so off-putting.

There is not a single sport that kids play where parents do not yell at the kids -- at all ages. I went to a big high school in the 1980s and there were a thousand people at the football games and you could hear parents yelling to their kids.

That is what happens in sports. Same thing happens at pro sports including pro soccer both here and in Europe. No one at a sporting match sits quietly and cheers and claps on occasion.

Parents shout “instructions” at baseball and basketball too. My kid hates it and it stresses him out.

I don’t remember my parents encouraging me at all. But I do remember during sports my teammates dads yelling at us things like “wheels!” And “nice pass!” And that sort of thing. I do think a positive, upbeat energy helps create a dynamic similar to the “home field advantage”.

No need to go berserk but I think it’s a better experience for everyone if the parents are positive and engaged and encouraging.

I think it’s the negative stuff that really is bad. I remember one dad that wasn’t there for more than a season would yell things at kids, not just his own, that were really rude. He’d yell at the refs, coaches, etc. This was before the notorious hockey dad phenomenon.

Keep it positive and encouraging and who cares??

OMG, yes! It's so annoying. Stop yelling "hustle buddy" and "defense" to a bunch of 6 year olds who don't know what that means. Please stop, you're super annoying and everybody hates you for it.

Anonymous wrote:My faves:
Random "hot route" calls
"Git er done"
B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!

you forgot "wheels!"

My faves:
Random "hot route" calls
"Git er done"
B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!

Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with those soccer parents who are yelling non-stop "encouragements" from the sidelines. The kids (a) can't hear them and (b) wouldn't care if they could hear them - which they mostly can't.

Half the stuff they say is just bizarre too, like another language. Why not just sit quietly and clap or cheer on occasion when it's warranted?

This does not happen in any other sport. I find those parents who just yap at the field non-stop so off-putting.

Negative yelling parents and helicopter parents telling directions to kids suck. They ruin the sidelines and stress out the kids. Parents cheering? If you have a problem with that the. Just watch sports at home it happens in professional games more than youth sports.

Anonymous wrote:I'll just leave you with this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Ys-yYay4

That's great! I thought it was going to be the women running up and down the sidelines yelling things.

I'll just leave you with this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Ys-yYay4

What is the deal with those soccer parents who are yelling non-stop "encouragements" from the sidelines. The kids (a) can't hear them and (b) wouldn't care if they could hear them - which they mostly can't.

Half the stuff they say is just bizarre too, like another language. Why not just sit quietly and clap or cheer on occasion when it's warranted?

This does not happen in any other sport. I find those parents who just yap at the field non-stop so off-putting.