Words can wound or heal(watch your mouth)
@amadeo (111942)
United States
August 21, 2016 4:27pm CST
In my early days here in NH.I manage a minor league baseball team.
These are kids who had not made it to the little league.
Hopefully some will make to the little league.
This was back in the sixties.Most of the kids were from low income.
They were great kids and doing their best what they had.
This has nothing to do with this.It is the mom and dad.
The bickering that goes on with other mom and pop.
You know the story.why isn't my kid playing etc.
it was not too bad then.But today is worse.
My kids is better than yours etc.You know the story on this.
They are kids,period.Their body have not developed yet
My kid stuck out.People are booing.What is this.Do they realized what they are doing there.These are kids enjoying themselves in playing.Some of them are in tears.Why the parents do not keep their lip shut.Do you realized how much this hurt a child?The words that come out of their mouth wound or heal.
Any sport.Fist fighting breaks out.My kid was in the minor and then worked his way to the league.Not bragging.but I would not say half of the things that the parents come out of their mouth.This is still going on.
Yes,words can wound or heal.
The photo is public domaine.
Let the kids enjoy themselves.Parents.Lip sealed.I know been there
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25 responses
@garymarsh6 (23392)
• United Kingdom
21 Aug 16
Words can be so very spiteful and hurt deep down and can have a lasting effect. Parents should know better!
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@crossbones27 (48641)
• Mojave, California
21 Aug 16
I like this, not sure you would have wrote this three years ago, Maybe I am wrong.
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@crossbones27 (48641)
• Mojave, California
21 Aug 16
@amadeo I love it either way and you seem to approve lol.
@amadeo (111942)
• United States
21 Aug 16
@crossbones.It was not me.Maybe someone else?
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
21 Aug 16
children can be very cruel to one another and any kid who stands out as different easily become a victim
@jstory07 (134879)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Aug 16
Words can also hurt a child for life. they still think bad of themselves because of what someone said to them. Parents should think before they say stupid and mean things to others and to children.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Aug 16
hi amadeo I sure do agree let the kids have funm, parents butt out. I still remember one time my dad was angry at me, he told me "I wish you had never been born." later he tried to apologize but Im 89and the words'
still hurt, My father sorry to say was, a mean cruel perhaps mentally ill man
@Hate2Iron (15729)
• Canada
21 Aug 16
You would think that grownups would know better wouldn't you! I remember thinking that once we were all grown up, life would be simpler... that didn't happen :( It was often worse!
@LeaPea2417 (36739)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Aug 16
Oh yes, words can build a person up or tear them down. I tried never to compare my kids to others. I always tried to encourage my children.
@Juliaacv (49300)
• Canada
21 Aug 16
I agree with you.
As a parent on the side-lines watching our son play his sports, I heard the parents, both the complimentary ones as well as the other ones. It was like they were coaching violence and aggression in their children. And then I look at those young people today, some of those terms did push them into a direction I wouldn't want to see for my own son.
After any game our son played, we always asked him one question-did you have fun. Isn't that what the outcome of a game should be?
@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
21 Aug 16
my kids didn't do the sports.But I saw it in accompanying a friend to her son's little league games. These parents disgusted me, most of them. It made me glad my kids weren't interested in it. I understand having to learn to deal with criticism. But these weren't critiques, these were big rude meanies. So I hope the right people read your post and think on it.
@amadeo (111942)
• United States
21 Aug 16
@CinnamonGirl Yes,you are right.Mostly the mom.Little by pop.
@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
21 Aug 16
You nailed it. Little League parents are the worst.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
22 Aug 16
I know those sports parents well. They are the most thoughtless bunch and they ruin what should be a fun experience for their kids and other people's kids too. Seriously folks, it's fun this is not professional sports. All the kids are winners.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
22 Aug 16
Words can hurt no matter the age...except my skin has thickened over the last fifteen years and you can call me any name in the book and I won't let it bother me. I know who and what I am and that's all that matters. I never had kids, so I can only comment on how I feel.
