I am sure I am officially the mean mom on my daughter's soccer team now. The girls had training tonight. Overall, practice was terrible. Most of the girls did not run their laps before practice, but walked instead. Also, during practice there was way too much talking and goofing off with very little effort being put into actually practicing. If I was the coach I would have had them running wind sprints. But, since I am not the coach, I patiently waited until practice was done and made my daughter run a lap for goofing off at practice. You should have seen the faces of some of the other parents. You would have thought I told her to run barefoot across hot coals. I could only imagine the other parents telling their kids "be glad I am not like her" on their car ride home. God forbid if I should discipline my child.
My daughter was miffed at me for a little bit. She knows that practice is not the place to be goofing off, so she got over it quickly. My kids have plenty of other times to goof off and I am usually right there with them. But there are also times when you are supposed to work, and practice is one of those times. I am hoping that maybe some of the other parents will get with the program and will get their own kids in line so that we can have a great team.
I find this funny, cause I can just picture the other parents faces, ugghh, they always look at us with shock as if we did something incredibly wrong for redirecting our children, oh well, maybe they'll learn a thing or two from it...or maybe the other kids are going to think they will have to run a lap too the next time they goof off! Not a mean mom at all!
ReplyDeleteMy oldest son coaches a soccer team for 8 year olds. I think he would have been impressed by what you did.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement. Sometimes I feel like the only Mom out there that really cares how her kid does.
ReplyDeleteIt's the curse of the new helicopter parenting mode that so many Moms & Dads seem to fall into. You're supposed to wish for, and help your children to have a better life than yours - not easier. "Easy" doesn't prepare kids for the future. Children need to understand (and experience for themselves) how the choices they make come with a price.
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