Yesterday, our family attended our younger son's second soccer game and he came home with his second win. Officially, we aren't supposed to recognizing the win or that the score was 3-2. This is an instructional league, ages 6-8, and no score is to be tallied.
Maybe it's us parents that need the instruction...on how to behave. Every 5 minutes you hear some parent asking what the score is, who scored the goal, yelling sideline instructions to their kid on the field, etc. etc. Yesterday, we heard a parent of the opposing team tell his parents (the kids grandparents who had come to cheer their grandson on), that they told their son if he scored a goal AND if his team won the game, that they'd get him the new a X-Box game. What did I just hear???
Well, that's all I needed to start rooting for our team. I'm not sure why, a loss would hurt the child more than his parents. Actually, I should've been rooting for a bunch of goals from this kid and a win that would result in a reward that would really set his idiotic parents back some serious money. I just seriously couldn't believe what these parents set their kid up for. Why would you only reward your 6-year-old child's effort if he scored, not to mention their second criteria...the goal alone wasn't good enough, his team had to come home with a win.
As it turns out, our team won (only I'm not recognizing the win as instructed.) And the kid was so close to getting his X-Box game. Sorry Billy, Mom and Dad only reward when you play well and the team wins. Maybe next week you'll try harder.
2 comments:
I just don't understand the whole "not recognizing the score" thing. As far as I'm concerned, practices are for instruction, and games are for competition. If you lose - you lose. You're a good sport about it, and then you try to win again next week.
I think the whole "not wanting kids to be upset about anything in life" thing has gotten way out of hand. Likewise, I don't think the whole "x-box thing" is right either. When I was in Little League, we had the incentive of a trip to Dairy Queen if we won. That seems a bit more in line. But, maybe that's not enough for kids these days.
I agree with you. (What??!!) I think there is a tendency to be overprotective of kids' feelings. However, the entire league isn't non-competitive, just this age group. When they're 8 and over it becomes a draft league with competition, scoring, etc.
We were told not to speak with the kids about the strike. I found that absolutely ridiculous and spoke to our boys about it last night. I wanted to explain the concept of a union and a strike, knowing they'd understand what was happening. I mean, they could be out of school due to the strike as early as this coming Monday and they're not supposed to know why? They'll be expected to extend their school year into their summer break and we're not supposed to mention why? Now that's being overprotective of the kids.
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