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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (6423)	1/25/2002 11:20:01 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 14610

Exactly. And what do kids learn from the whole "Team" experience when they have parents screaming at them. Those same parents might want to skip the games and put that time into reading to their kids.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (6423)	1/25/2002 11:24:46 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

That's true....but there is a movement afoot to change it. Where I live, your kids can't participate unless the parents attend an educational program on how to behave. The parent behavior has gotten better. I recall vividly one game where the ref blew a call toward the end which affected the outcome.....and the parents (and kids) grumbled a bit but then said "it's only a game" and went out and had pizza. That's the way it should be. Also, in my daughter's first travel soccer game last Fall (where the parents and kids take it pretty seriously) the ref tossed the other coach out of the game in the first two minutes because he was riding the ref about a call (it was the correct call and the dumbass coach didn't even know the nuances of the offside rule). The ref explained the call, the coach still didn't like it and yelled a bit....and the next thing you know a yellow card and then a red card (disqualification) came out. The kids talked about that more than the game. And each of them said that the lesson they learned was the coach should try to teach the kids and not sit there yelling at the ref.