March 26, 2013
A mother reports that at a recent Catholic Schools
basketball tournament, the parents were behaving horribly. Parents of the
10-year-old players were screaming at the refs, screaming at their kids to push
the opposing 10-year old players out of the way, etc. One father got threatened
with ejection.
The final straw, said the mother, came when the woman beside
her was screaming at the ref, and a boy behind her, whose sister was playing on
the opposing team, pointed out that the woman hadn’t been abusing the ref when
her daughter’s team was winning. The woman turned around and said, “You shut
your mouth, little man!”
At that point, the appalled mother said, “Really? Today?” (It was Palm Sunday.) “Where is
your faith?”
She said that there was a lot more she wanted to say, but
she got her point across. The other woman turned red and squirmed and was
quieter from that point on.
As I’m hearing this story, I’m hoping 1) That the parents
aren’t pressuring their kids like that off the court about sports or anything
else, and making their lives a misery; and 2) That the kids don’t grow up to be
jerks.
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