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I’m at my 5 yr old’s coach pitch baseball practice this weekend. There is a 7yr old kid doing great....the father in his early 20s, wearing a gang tilted baseball cap....is sitting right next to me in the stands.
Not once did this young punk acknowledge his son’s fine play. Not once did he even look up and watch one play or drill.
I praised the kid every chance I got, because clearly, he is getting no attention at home with his father.
Sad.
What were you doing just watching what the fellow next to you was doing...by the way were you properly acknowledging your own son? What was the fellow doing, just sitting there staring back at you wondering why you weren’t acknowledging your own son and why were you being so nosy just staring at him?
The man was there, in the stands! Maybe he just wasn’t as expressive as you felt any parent ought to be! Maybe personal issues were plaguing him and he was feeling sad! I know I went to my kids games and sometimes I would be “chewing on my own cud” in worry...other times when I was feeling better I was whooping and hollering same as any dad!
I just love how folks form an opinion of what they think is really going on inside of another person’s head. If this “punk” was really all “punk” as you say(with the gang titled hat), then I’m amazed he was at the game at all!
Some of the worst behavior I have ever seen involved youth sports. Adults cheating and lying! Happened to us this weekend in a Tournament.