I will be sane for only EIGHT more days.
Then lacrosse season will start and I will go insane.
It’s my fault. I made a horrible parenting mistake five years ago.
I encouraged my kid to be a goalie. How stupid.
I really didn’t think she’d DO it.
Sure, I worry about my kid getting hurt.
Most of all, I worry about getting myself into a yelling match with a parent.
I came close to fisticuffs with a father last year.
He complained, very loudly, that it should be okay for a goalie to be hit in the head.
Goalies wear helmets,so why shouldn’t his precious daughter be allowed to bean mine in the noggin?
I tried very hard not to stalk over to him and hit him in the head.
I bit my tongue. I counted to one thousand. I tried to deep breathing.
It worked for a while. He stopped talking. I calmed down. All was good.
…until he started yammering again.
“Hey, that goalie you’re talking about is MY kid,” I bellowed.
The entire sideline of parents turned around and stared with wide eyes.
The father turned purple. He sputtered, he laughed nervously, and then he did something very stupid.
He tried to convince me that it’s okay for his precious daughter to whip a ball at my precious daughter’s head.
I narrowed my eyes and proceeded to do my best Clint Eastwood impression.
“The rules say your kid can’t hit my kid in the head. Follow the rules.”
He shut up. So did everyone else in the stands.
And that’s when I knew I was insane,
because I made a scene
and didn’t care!
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These are the times as parents, we must remind ourselves to BREATHE! It’s heart wrenching and terrifying to think our child might get hurt and we’re standing on the sidelines hands tightly gripped on anything not moving. Like I say, everything in moderation. Which is why we stick with recreational sports-and there is danger in that, too! Here’s hoping your goalie gets MVP and nothing but high fives!
Great post!
I guess the thought of looking forward to any post that’s going to make sense from here on out is fruitless huh? Well until the season is over at least. LOL! Hang in there my friend. I’ve made a scene on the sidelines of a soccer game my child was in. The fun part? I was 8 months pregnant. LOL!!!!
OXOX,
Kim
Kim @ Homesteader’s Heart´s last [type] ..My Journey Towards Simplicity! Part 1
I would love for our kids to be on the same team. I’m “that” mom too and I don’t care. I might have taken it a step further and asked how he would like to get hit in th head. LOL Right now my kid still plays for fun and isn’t real competitive. God help me (and those around me) once he hits serious sports!
I admire your restraint, actually
Keeping the argument to the “rules” issue is being very rational even though I know what you had to have been feeling. Kudos! And good luck in the upcoming season to your daughter and yourselves.
I’m glad that guy finally realized he needed to shut up, even if you had to verbally hit him in the head a few times.
Christopher´s last [type] ..Dear David Mitchell…
Good for you! You’re my kind of Mom!!
Don’t worry Lynne, I’ve got your back. If anyone acts up just call me over from teh soccer field and we can pile drive them together
Better yet, we’ll take ‘em out with the Hungry Hornet – LOL.
Oh sister, I have BEEN there. Football. My boys. It was the team’s FIRST year to play football, so mistakes were expected. Apparently, Superdad in the stands didn’t feel that way. He was nonstop criticizing in his yelling voice. So I politely asked him to try saying something positive. He responded that he “would say something positive when then did something positive.” I was on the board for the football league and called the President and told him to report to the stands because there was about to be a huge rucus and a guy was about to get knocked out. But I promised that I would leave quietly after that and there would be no need for handcuffs. Or straight jackets.
Stronger Me´s last [type] ..I’m no longer on the edge of insanity. I’m jumping in.
A bit of a temper eh? Do you have a bit of the Irish? Do you? I’ll bet you do! Of course, on top of that, you are perfectly in the right.
Virtual High 5 to you! Yesterday I had to bite my tongue and walk out of a basketball game and watch from the hallway because of the comments the parents from the opposing team were making. It was a really disappointing show of sportsmanship all around…players, parents, and the coach! With 3 kids very active in sports, I have seen my share of unsportsmanlike conduct, but the blatant disrespect across the board was pretty disturbing!
Michelle´s last [type] ..Youth Sports: Teaching Good Sportsmanship
You go, Mom!! Somebody’s gotta stick up for the goalie!
Rabia @ TheLiebers´s last [type] ..Ponytail Epiphany
Whatever happened to just having fun? I went thru this with my two kids in different sports and now I have two granddaughters to follow (in a few years at least). Why does it all have to be so dang bloodthirsty? I am the Mimi who will back you up in a skirmish with one of those parents-just call!
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