Violence and Bad Parenting in Youth Sports

All across America, there have been acts of violence in all of the different youth sports. There have been crazy stories that have come out in recent years showing just how bad parents are getting when it comes to their kids and the sport they play. One story was about a man who was a referee in a soccer game and had a coach break a couple bones in his face because the ref called off the game. The coach was upset with how the man was calling the game and kept yelling at the ref to the point where he called off the game. This enraged the coach so much that he confronted the ref and assaulted him and badly broke some bones in the ref's face. Aside from this there have also been stories of things getting to the point of man being murdered at a hockey practice.

An interesting fact is that out of the 20 million kids that participate in youth sports, 70 percent of them end up quitting with the main reason being that they weren't having fun anymore. This can almost be directly related to coaches and parents taking the sports too serious and taking out the main reason kids play sports: to have fun. There have been stories of coaches and parents getting so upset to the point where they are yelling at, hitting, and even choking their kids and other kids on the teams.

I think that all of this going on in youth sports is crazy. Parents and coaches are taking the youth sports to another level of competition as they seem to care more about the results of the games more about the actual kids do themselves. The level of seriousness they have is causing kids everywhere to lose interest and end up quitting their respective sports. Parents and coaches need to realize the games their kids are playing in are meaningless at that young of an age and need to learn to have a level head when watching and coaching a game.