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OK all here is my dilemma. I have coach for several years and I have had good and bad parents, by today a parent took the cake.
A public degrading of his dd at a game in front of the kids and parents. Now I will say I have watched this father the last few weeks and he will yell out at his dd during practice for every little thing. Now this is a 10 year old. Thing is if I say something I will be told not to tell him how to parent and of course trouble will follow. When he yells at her I feel I have lost her, I try to talk to her and she will not make eye contact. I feel there is going to be a serious man issue with this one. My older dd's cannot even get through to her because they have seen this and are bothered by it. Today is the first time other players have shown tension because of it.
Now the first time this happened I pulled her to the side and got that she does like softball but her dad makes her play. I actually asked one of the girls to reach out to her at school and it helped some.
After all of this I feel she is lost and I have tried everything I have learned through the years and from raising 3 dd's of my own as a single parent.
I am at wits end and do not know the best approach to this volatile situation
I just hate it and think it is a sad sad world sometimes.
A public degrading of his dd at a game in front of the kids and parents. Now I will say I have watched this father the last few weeks and he will yell out at his dd during practice for every little thing. Now this is a 10 year old. Thing is if I say something I will be told not to tell him how to parent and of course trouble will follow. When he yells at her I feel I have lost her, I try to talk to her and she will not make eye contact. I feel there is going to be a serious man issue with this one. My older dd's cannot even get through to her because they have seen this and are bothered by it. Today is the first time other players have shown tension because of it.
Now the first time this happened I pulled her to the side and got that she does like softball but her dad makes her play. I actually asked one of the girls to reach out to her at school and it helped some.
After all of this I feel she is lost and I have tried everything I have learned through the years and from raising 3 dd's of my own as a single parent.
I am at wits end and do not know the best approach to this volatile situation
I just hate it and think it is a sad sad world sometimes.