[quote=cvmom]It’s really tough parenting in CV with the tiger parents. And it only gets worse and more cut-throat as the kids get older…and those parents will do ANYTHING to get their kids a leg up on the “competition”. I’ve seen it all already, and my kid is just entering high school. Nasty. And what awful role models for their kids.[/quote]
When I coached T-ball (5 and 6 year olds), I had parents coming up to me and asking how to prepare their kids for “The Show” (Major League Baseball). Kids in question didn’t know how to tie their shoes yet and mom and dad were talking about pitching and hitting coaches, specialized gear, etc.
In Pop Warner, I see obsessive parents (and it’s both parents, not just the dads), who are hiring QB coaches, at astronomical prices, for their 12yo sons, or sending their kids to NFL summer camps (another good way to separate yourself from your money), or engaging in good, old-fashioned treachery to advance their kid’s fortunes over someone else’s.
I’m all for sports to teach teamwork, build character and instill camaraderie, but, somewhere along the line, we lost the handle, societally-speaking. We are now encouraging yet another generation of coddled, entitled little idiots, who have no sense of others, let alone empathy for them, to go out into a world where it’s all about them and their “accomplishments”.
