Posted on 04/30/2015 10:47:07 AM PDT by cdga5for4
We thought it would be clear to most readers that the script was a fictional account. Interestingly, the blog article garnered attention on several web sites and a number of readers on those sites mistakenly thought the article was a non-fiction article.
While we're sure some of the scenarios presented in the article have been encountered by parents of youth athletes, we also found it telling about the current state of youth sports that so many people took the script seriously.
Installment one ended with a quote from the player who just left practice in tears that read, "Dad, I don't want to go back." Several readers responded that Madison needed to go back to practice and that the parents should not let her out of her commitment. Others suggested that Coach Mack was out of line and that the parents should remove their daughter from the program. There were still others who argued that the dad is exactly what is wrong with our kids today because he was critical of the coach. If you are a parent who does "hate" your child's youth sports coach, what should you do?
Didn't we already beat that horse in the first thread?
Worry more about the quality of your kids’ TEACHERS and PASTORS
Sports are, of course, a worthwhile and healthy activity, but Americans have taken the pursuit of them, as part of the education process, to an extremely unhealthy and expensive degree.
The author must be a liberal, for them a horse is never dead enough or beat enough!
The first problem was naming your daughter “Madison”.
If you are talking of the paid kind, you wouldn’t be normal if you did not hate your kids coach. Speaking as someone who played sports at a high level, those I played with who went into coaching as a profession at the youth level did so because they were unqualified for any other profession. They come in two varieties, the extremely dumb or the extremely crazy. You get better coaching from father/mother volunteers who are a lot more normal as human beings. If you want to find a large collection of life’s losers, head on down to your local baseball academy.
I guess for some I beat the horse to death. Maybe for others I didn’t. You certainly don’t have to read the post.
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