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Father Accused Of Beating Boy After Baseball Game

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I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
Someone needs to take a bat to this guys head....

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Father Accused Of Beating Boy After Baseball Game
Expert Says Some Parents Pressure Children Too Much

OMAHA, Neb. -- A father is accused of punching his 9-year-old son after a baseball game, apparently because he was upset by his son's performance.

The boy suffered a black eye and bruises, according to a police report filed by the boy's mother. The mother took out a protection order, and according to that affidavit, the father swung his right fist at the boy while they were riding home in the car after a baseball game. The boy had struck out twice in the game.

The report said the boy suffered a fat lip, black eye, bruised brow and bruised ear. The mother said she confronted her husband and asked him what she should tell the boy's teachers. He allegedly said to tell them that the boy doesn't listen.

The wife and mother told KETV NewsWatch 7 Tom Elser that she took her son to the school counselor's office on Wednesday to report the attack. The counselor then called police.


The boy is expected to be OK. KETV NewsWatch 7 is not naming the father to protect the boy's identity.

Dr. Todd Stull, a sports psychiatrist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said he isn't familiar with the case, but that many young athletes dread the ride home after a game.

"There's enormous pressure on kids to play," Stull said.

He said some parents' expectations are too high, and some suffer from "achievement by proxy," or living through their child, making their accomplishments more about the parent's glory than the child's development.

Stull said sports should be fun for kids who are making friends and learning new skills. It should not be all about winning or losing.

"If the fun is taken out, friends taken away, (they may) not want to do it anymore," Stull said.

The alleged beating case is still under investigation. The couple has two younger children in addition to the 9-year-old.
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scooter1369 said:
I hope the kid grows up strong, is able to get passed this mess and one day, come home and kick the shit out of his old man.
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it won't really make him feel any better. i just hope he is able to get past what is going on in his life currently. the fact that the mother immediately took action is a very good sign. generally in situations like this the mother is normally a victim as well and doesn't have the backbone needed to take action. assuming she has the strength to follow through, he should be just fine. kids actually pretty lucky imo.
 
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martinss01 said:
it won't really make him feel any better. i just hope he is able to get past what is going on in his life currently. the fact that the mother immediately took action is a very good sign. generally in situations like this the mother is normally a victim as well and doesn't have the backbone needed to take action. assuming she has the strength to follow through, he should be just fine. kids actually pretty lucky imo.
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I agree it may not be therapeutic or anything, but I'd like to see him do it just the same. You know, for shits and grins.
 
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scooter1369 said:
I agree it may not be therapeutic or anything, but I'd like to see him do it just the same. You know, for shits and grins.
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id just like to see him beat to death period. i say we auction the right to do so off and air it on pay per view. fund the kids college education with the proceeds. everyone wins! well, everyone worthwhile anyway :p

p.s. it is a little therepudic actually (and by a little = i mean a lot). but in my case it left me with a feeling of failure for not having done so sooner/for having to do it to begin with. i think of it as winning a war by sacrificing everything you ever really valued.
 
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That guy is an asshole (probably couldn't get off the bench as a kid). Point being, in my limited experience as a dad, it is much better after a loss to not even speak of baseball, much better to just discuss ice cream, and what flavor and how much we are going to eat.. God I am fat... but I love me some ice cream... and from what I can see it is hereditary!!! :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:!!!!!
 
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Everything that Dr. Stull is quoted on in the article is dead on and one doesn't need to be a doctor to know it. I am entering my 9th year as a youth baseball coach and parents are out of control. It isn't just the dad's either, some mothers are just as bad and at times even worse.

My oldest has been on a travel baseball team for 3 years and this year's team is the best he has been on by far. Talent-wise, marginally better than the other years. What makes it head and shoulders better this year is that we have jettisoned the asshole parents!

IMO, for some of these idiotic parents, they have a certain lotto mentality in that they believe their son is destined for the major leagues. Some aim a little lower and believe that their son is destined to earn a full-ride D1 scholarship. Last year, I actually told one father (who had a severely over-rated opinion of his son's ability) who believed the latter that if he took 1/4 of the time spent on baseball and applied it to scholastics, his boy would probably earn scholarship monies for his academics.
 
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Hell, Iwould be estatic if my kid got a ride anywhere. If baseball can lead to an education that is good, but if it isn't fun.... what's the point.


My son, the older one is really good when he tries (sometime he doesn't have to :( )

I don't get it, I was never really good at baseball..... he must've got it from his mom...

I knew I loved her the first time I saw her play softball, and she was catcher, and she ran down to backup first on a throw from left.... :wink: and no, that sweet booty had absolutely nothing to do with it!!!

I watch the kids parents at games, some of them are idiots... Most of them are good parents though, they just want their kids to succeed, and build self confidence. Yes, there are the totall jerks, I fortunately don't remember that when I was a kid. Seems like alot of that came with Tiger, and the talk of putting when he was 2....


Personally, and I have said this many many many times before. I would love to just have my kid get a scholarship. I don't care where.... just to be able to experience college and continue to have fun...
 
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obviously I don't want him going to "Methomps U" but no, as long as the accademics are in order.... I don't really care. I would just like to see him go to college and have fun, and get the perks of scholly play. D2, D1, that doesn't matter. If he could be a buckeye, god, I could dream nothing better, but I don't dream like that. A scholly to Bethany to play ball and get a free education, I would be estatic. I had to pay my own, and that is hard to damn near impossible. I don't make a lot of $$... I just would like for them not to worry and work like I did. Not bitching, I wouldn't be the man that I am without the experiences I had, I just want better.






and I resent the insinuation....
 
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Well, Methomps U, Harvard, Yale, upiddy school like that don't give athletes scholly's so I would probably have to be out on those.

As for Mchigan.....


If they offered and tOSU didn't ........

I would have to think about a second mortgage. :)
 
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buckiprof said:
Everything that Dr. Stull is quoted on in the article is dead on and one doesn't need to be a doctor to know it. I am entering my 9th year as a youth baseball coach and parents are out of control. It isn't just the dad's either, some mothers are just as bad and at times even worse.

My oldest has been on a travel baseball team for 3 years and this year's team is the best he has been on by far. Talent-wise, marginally better than the other years. What makes it head and shoulders better this year is that we have jettisoned the asshole parents!

IMO, for some of these idiotic parents, they have a certain lotto mentality in that they believe their son is destined for the major leagues. Some aim a little lower and believe that their son is destined to earn a full-ride D1 scholarship. Last year, I actually told one father (who had a severely over-rated opinion of his son's ability) who believed the latter that if he took 1/4 of the time spent on baseball and applied it to scholastics, his boy would probably earn scholarship monies for his academics.
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This is my second year coaching softball. So far, I've had great parents who are supportive and back me and my assistant when their kid doesn't like what they hear.

I have a former coach among my parents this year and one dad is an umpire and another mom's father-in-law is an umpire. I have a mom who is a trained and efficient score keeper. And with girls softball, I have two mom's, as always, that are going to be our fashion advisors (:lol:). One cannot play girl's softball without being properly accessorized in Hilliard.
 
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