Please forgive my rant this morning. I am so sick and tired of coaches that think it is ok to put a student down in front of other students or to the student themselves. I really wish people would grow up and act like adults instead of middle school playground bullies. I posted earlier this year that Sprat was not going to be playing football in his senior year due mostly to the coaches and how they acted to the players. In my dear son's words "they sucked the fun out of football." We have always told our kids when a sport becomes more of a job than a sport and they are no longer having fun participating, it is time to move on. Sprat made this decision on his own and has moved on to Lacrosse. He is absolutely loving lacrosse and loves his coaches. He comes home every night with a smile on his face and bruised from head to toe, but he is loving this sport. I am so thankful for the men and the other students that are helping to coach this team, they are wonderful!!
Now as for football I am beyond done and so is Sprat. The football coach had to open the locker room the other day for the lacrosse team to get in. This coach saw Sprat and called him by name in front of his peers and asked if he was going to sit the bench in this sport too. I cannot tell you the restraint that it took as a mom to not go and have a prayer meeting with this two bit you know what. My son being the amazing kid that he is replied in true fashion of our family, "that is a real knee slapper coach." I cannot tell you how proud of my son I am because he repeatedly deals with this two bit you know what and he repeatedly proves that he is the better person and more of an adult than this two bit you know what will ever be in his wildest dreams. Yesterday one of Sprat's teammates told him what another football coach said to him about my son. Why is this coach talking to another student about my kid when he is not even involved in lacrosse or involved in any fashion with my son. Can we please grow up and quit acting like children and start setting a better example for our kids. Why would a "teacher," and I use that term very loosely, talk to anther student like that?
Now I am going to rave over the coaches that are working with this lacrosse team. They are wonderful and they are setting a great example on how to be a man. Again, I cannot say enough how thankful I am for these men and Lacrosse. This sport has come at a time when my child needed someone and something to shoot for. He said the other night that how much he is loving this sport and he even said how much he likes his coaches and how supportive they have been of him. He has never played this sport before and with their encouragement and support and help he is doing really well. He has also taken on the very difficult position of goalie and usually nobody wants to play goalie because you get his with balls coming at you at 90+ miles an hour. My poor baby has the bruises to prove it, but he is very proud of everyone of his bruises.
If you are reading this and you are a coach please take what I have said to heart. No matter what you think of a player do not, I repeat, do not talk about them to another player or anyone else for that matter unless you are raving about how good they are. It will get back to them and their parents and their mom may not have as much restraint as I.
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