Soccer coach kicks 13-year-old player off the team after his mother screamed at him for benching her son: 'I pulled Tyler from the roster the next day.'

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• Am I wrong for kicking a kid off my team mid-season after his parents tried to get me fired?

  

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• If the other parents think that, then they have probably been lied to by this mother. She's clearly good at stirring up lies and narratives that make her look like the victim! The parents also might be sympathetic towards Tyler, which I totally understand. He's not old enough to drive, so he can't control whether and how he gets to practice. He's being punished for his mother's bad behavior, which should be a wake-up call for her to get her act together and take him to practice, but I have a feeling she's not the type to internalize things like this. 

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• This comment is so interesting because most of us have this conception that contemporary parents of young athletes are uniquely insufferable. The youth sports industry has grown huge and profitable over the past couple of decades, and it seems to attract the worst parents. Anyone delusional enough to think that enough money will buy their kid a spot in the MLB or NBA is probably delusional in other aspects of their life. They think their kid is way better than they are, and will let the coach and everyone else know it. That's not even exclusive to parents of kids in travel sports: this personality type can be found among the parents of every youth sports team in the country! The fact that anyone coaches youth sports at all is a miracle. If you're one of the parents who doesn't throw a fit on the sidelines, you are a mensch.

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