...you go to a meeting in the IT department, see a cube with a lot of baseball momentos and a duffle of soccer-coaching gear, and wonder if you've found Cujo's Lair...
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Originally posted by Anonymous
Or post it on the club website.Comment
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...if you even have a Tiny Tot Team Supporters' Club website (the discrete clubs stick with the car flags and T-shirts only and don't register their URLs until Town Rec starts)Originally posted by AnonymousComment
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When your summer vacation starts in Boston - moves to Charlotte - comes back to New York and then goes back south to Virginia so your U9 can catch all of the dribble, pass and shoot contests and increase their chance of making national finalsComment
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You "work the ref" at your child's U8 game.
After your child dominates a MicroSoccer game you've already decided which college s/he will be playing for.Comment
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....you rationalize dribbling and juggling in the house as your childs initiative to get in some "extra practice".
....you can live with the scuff marks on the wall and the occasional broken lamp for the same reason as above.Comment
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Re: You might be an over the top soccer parent if.......?
Originally posted by Anonymous
If you do any of the below. Unfortunately I have done 8 of them.
1. Analyze the game during most of the car ride home? Even if you are not speaking directly to them, they can hear you and it stresses them out.
2. Feel frustration or anger after a poor practice or performance?
3. Feel embarrassed or want to avoid other parents after a poor performance by your child?
4. Get involved with your child's goals? (different from teaching the skill of goal setting)
5. Motivate your child to perform with rewards?
6. Feel jealousy of athletes or parents of teammates who outperform your child?
7. Secretly want to deny a teammate his/her glory?
8. Find yourself making excuses for your child's performance by blaming illness, injury, his/her teammates, the coach or the club?
9. Want your child to be placed on another team or in another club after a couple of poor performances but change your mind after a good performance?
10. Find that your support for the coach or program goes up and down relative to your child's or team's performance ups and downs?
11. Feel compelled to watch practice or want to know everything that goes on in your child's training?
12. Offer coaching hints to your child, especially during games?Comment
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Dropping your child off after a match on the side of the highway after her "poor effort"
This really happened last summer in Omaha.....Comment
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Actually in Lincoln NEOriginally posted by Anonymous
Lincoln, NE police issue a ticket to a woman for leaving her daughter alongside Interstate 80 because of her unsatisfactory performance in a soccer game.Comment
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...you saw the talking soccer post with the '08 REVS schedule before you checked your email from the season ticket staff. You're upset that the Development Team schedules are not yet available...
(OK, I admit I posted the schedule, and I did look for the DT listing on mlsnet.com before I submitted. mea culpa)Comment
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Thanks for posting.Originally posted by Anonymous
Over the top is:
...you made a note to check that your TIVO has correctly programmed all of the broadcasts...
...you've already figured out if you're going to be late to the tailgate because of conflicts with away MAPLE games...Comment
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I can identify with this one.Originally posted by StillLearning
Fortunately we broke the lamp the lamp in the hallway. By doing so we eliminated my wife's ability to yell "you can't play there! It will break the lamp in the hallway"Comment
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What? Your wife byed out of the round robin series? Good luck when you have to face her in the semis!Originally posted by AnonymousComment
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Better to curse the darkness than to forego household floorsoccer...Originally posted by AnonymousComment
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Good one. But no we didn't get byed - we still have the overhead globe to play under. We just smoothed the way to play uninterrupted soccerOriginally posted by AnonymousComment
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