Daily Dose of Sugar Mama

We spent our entire weekend at a soccer tournament. We have attended this soccer tournament for a few years and the team always look forward to hanging out in the hotel, swimming, chasing girls from other teams in the halls, and playing some great soccer. They’ll always remember these tournaments. It’s a great time… great fun…. but there IS more to life than these soccer games.

And some of the parents haven’t learned that yet.

And those parents are the reason I have to sit as far away from the opposing team’s fans as possible. Because when I hear them criticize our team’s coach (Sugar Daddy), or either of my sons, I get a little crazy. But what REALLY drives me nuts is when I hear them encourage nasty behavior on the fields. What are they thinking!? These kids will one day move on past Jr high soccer and enter a real world. A world with people that will not give a damn that they scored the winning goal at a U14 soccer tournament. A world of people that have no patience for those that think athleticism equals superiority.

A boy intentionally tripped Tween. So, it upset me a bit, considering Teen broke his leg one year at a soccer game from the same kind of intentional play, but what upset me the most was when I heard the kid’s father on the side scream, “Good job Johnny*! Let’s see that again!”  (*name changed to protect the identity of the rude ass kid on the opposing soccer team and his pathetic father).

Really?! That is considered a good job?! My husband tears into his team for intentionally trying to harm another player. It’s just not allowed. There is NO tolerance for it from our team. Why do parents do this? It’s a soccer GAME people! It’s not their entire life. Your kid will NOT go on to play professional soccer. I know this because he is in the middle of Nebraska playing regular u14 ball. Not premiere soccer. Not elite soccer. Just regular club soccer. And that’s fine. So let it go.

The parents and players from this other team did several  things that were very irritating. I was angry and disgusted. Not because we lost (our team placed 2nd overall… good job boys!), but because their nasty behavior was considered acceptable. And if the kids are encouraged from their own parents… how will it ever change? I wish I could see what those boys will be like as adults. And because, at the end of the day, I really DO care for the well-being of all children, I can only pray that someone will get a hold of them and knock some reality and humility into them before it’s too late.

Teen & Tween on the field… doing their thing. I LOVE when I’m able to get a shot of them together.