Long Island children's sports coach laments parent's overreactions: 'Why are... the Moms acting this way?'

Every kid's sports team has a handful of parents who love to coach from the sidelines. Instead of just letting their 7-year-olds run around and play, they get red in the face from hollering at the coaches and referees. 

My favorite ages to watch kids play sports are when they're in pre-K or kindergarten, and they have 0 idea what's going on. Some of the players have no focus. Some will sit down in the grass to pick flowers and point out bugs. Some will get stage fright and retreat to their parents' arms to watch from the sidelines. And best of all are the determined little sluggers who will do things like proudly kicking a soccer goal into their own net, scoring a point for the other team, but still celebrating valiantly. Or if it's a T-ball game, they'll run to first base, then refuse to run any further, even with all the encouragement in the world. At this age, no one takes the game seriously. So it's fascinating to watch the same parents, just a few years later, get super worked up over children's sports. 

This person shared their "coaching nightmare" happening with their local 1st graders (a group of kids who are certainly still in that aforementioned age range who can't take sports seriously). They're a volunteer coach, but they're growing weary of the parents who can't stop coaching from the sidelines, with some parents going so far as to "trash-talk" them. That's so ridiculous! As one commenter noted, "Sports parents have been embarrassing since the beginning of time." I promise, your child is not going to lose a potential college sports scholarship just because the coach didn't put her in the game at age 6, but these parents will never learn their lessons. 

Up next, read about this pastry chef who ruined their stepmother's 50th birthday cake after an impolite remark about cake quality: "Stepmom was livid." 

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