bigtex75081 wrote:

anselansel wrote:I would hardly want to emulate a communist dictatorship with a terrible human rights record as a model on anything regarding children......

OK. I agree that if that video was recorded on a field here in Dallas there's a high likelihood that the coach would have been swallowing a couple of his front teeth at about the 90-second mark. The Dallas version of that video would have probably ended with the boy's parent sitting in a squad car.

I pointed out an extreme case though to make my point. The parents (intentionally or unintentionally) enabled the coach in that video to get to that point. It's clear the kids in that video cannot stand up for themselves. When does a coach cussing at kids stop being funny? When does it go too far? When does verbal abuse turn into physical abuse?

We all seem to agree that parents, sometimes, have to protect their kids. I don't think it should be one-off parents doing it though. It doesn't work if 1 parent says "That's not OK." and then the rest say "Vote with your feet then. I don't mind it. It's competitive soccer."

You bring up a very good point. I read a lot of threads on here about this coach or that coach yells at, cusses at or berates players from the sidelines and at practice. Some of the defenders get on here and say, "its ok as my kid can handle it, and I don't mind it." To that I say, "Really?" You do not mind if a grown adult hurls cuss words at your ten year old kid because of a soccer game? That is poor parenting in my mind and there is no way to justify it. If any coach of my kid so much as cussed at him once, we would be gone.

Sometimes it is amazing what group think does for people when all the parents on the sideline know the coach is a raving lunatic but they overlook it together, to the detriment of their kids.

And pay big money for it, too!

Are you the only bright student raising your hand in class, Omega?

[quote="Running"][quote="bigtex75081"][quote="anselansel"]I would hardly want to emulate a communist dictatorship with a terrible human rights record as a model on anything regarding children......[/quote]
OK. I agree that if that video was recorded on a field here in Dallas there's a high likelihood that the coach would have been swallowing a couple of his front teeth at about the 90-second mark. The Dallas version of that video would have probably ended with the boy's parent sitting in a squad car.

I pointed out an extreme case though to make my point. The parents (intentionally or unintentionally) enabled the coach in that video to get to that point. It's clear the kids in that video cannot stand up for themselves. When does a coach cussing at kids stop being funny? When does it go too far? When does verbal abuse turn into physical abuse?

We all seem to agree that parents, sometimes, have to protect their kids. I don't think it should be one-off parents doing it though. It doesn't work if 1 parent says "That's not OK." and then the rest say "Vote with your feet then. I don't mind it. It's competitive soccer."[/quote]





You bring up a very good point. I read a lot of threads on here about this coach or that coach yells at, cusses at or berates players from the sidelines and at practice. Some of the defenders get on here and say, "its ok as my kid can handle it, and I don't mind it." To that I say, "Really?" You do not mind if a grown adult hurls cuss words at your ten year old kid because of a soccer game? That is poor parenting in my mind and there is no way to justify it. If any coach of my kid so much as cussed at him once, we would be gone.

Sometimes it is amazing what group think does for people when all the parents on the sideline know the coach is a raving lunatic but they overlook it together, to the detriment of their kids.[/quote]


specially at this age, U11 when the kids are more vulnerable, looks like parents are more concerned with playing classic 1 (the first division) than their bb’s…