Was her name “Karen?”My kid played club soccer for the first time this past season. Overall it was a great experience. He made some new friends and enjoyed the experience and I met some parents that were generally cool and not horrible to be around. Tryouts were two weeks ago, and the club is trying to grow so they allowed new coaches to come in and bring in their own teams (Not happy about it but it is the nature of club sports). My kid ended up in a lower division because of that for the next year. Again not happy but I know that he had some skills to work on and several of his teammates also got dropped into the lower division. Most of the parents were in the same mindset of not being happy about it but we were looking forward to the kids growing their skillset and building on what they had built this past year. All except one parent.
This one parent threw a fit and tried to get all the other parents to quit the team. She herself declined the offer to have her kid play and made it clear that her goal was to make sure that the third team would not be around. In the end, she threatened to pull her other kid, who is actually good from a different age level and would play somewhere else. The club management did not want to see that happen so they finally gave in and moved her son back to the team he was on last year. When I called her out on it of course I became the bad guy. All I did was explain to her that if she was always going to remove barriers for her kid then he would struggle later in life and become a softie who would live in her basement into his 40's. From there she has tried to turn several parents against Me and my kid.
Anyway long story short, parents who clearly need more to do in their life than cause drama in kids' sports can fuck all the way off.
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