Mother Bear
I believe mothers just have a God given desire to protect their young, and when we feel our babies are in trouble or being hurt instinct kicks in and we just naturally act on it!
Today I jumped all over my son's football coach after the game. Dakota is not the best player on the team, but he plays his heart out and he loves the game and being part of the team. He usually plays between 8 and 12 plays in a game, but today they only put him in twice! It was not like we were loosing...in fact we won 25 to 0. 18 of the 25 points scored in the 1st half. We keep thinking any minute they will put him in, and I know Dakota was thinking the same thing.
When there was only two minutes left in the game I see my crushed little boy take off the helmet and go sit on the bench!
Ok I was mad at this point and planed on talking to the coach to see what his reason was for not playing Dakota. When the game ended we walked on to the field to get Dakota and he came over to us very upset and said "they told us to enjoy our win, but I can't, it was not my win because I did not get to play"!
Oh, I saw Red! I was so mad I was shaking! I walked right over to the coach and asked why he did not play Dakota. At first he gave me some crap about some kids did not play because they were not where they needed to be and they were horsing around. I said "No Dakota was right behind you through the whole game and all the kids played more then Dakota". Then he said "we told you at the beginning of the year some kids would not get to play much". I told him that is not what we were told. We were told they only allowed 25 kids on a team so all the kids got enough play time. Then I said Dakota is at every practice and he works just as hard as all of the other kids and he deserves to play too!I also told him when the score is 25 to 0 there is no excuse not to play all the kids. I told him this better not happen again, and he tried to keep talking to me but I walked off to go talk to the president of the program.I was really afraid that if I said much more to him I would regret what I said! So my husband finished talking to him and told him again that we felt that this was just not fair, and it really hurt and embarrassed Dakota. He told Jeff "I take all the blame and I am sorry". Uh ok who else would we blame?? Oh and thanks for now taking the blame after you first tried to blame it on Dakota...Jerk!
So I catch the President. I told him Dakota was really upset that he was only allowed to play two plays and that this was not how he should be treated! He was shocked, and then I told him that if this happened to him again we would take him out of the league and tell everyone how the coaches treated him! He assured me that it would not happen again and that he would be have a long talk with the coach!
It just broke my heart to see the tears in my son's eyes today! This was suppose to be fun for him and now he feels like his is not good enough! They could not have made him feel like he was less a part of this team then they did today! Tonight he told me if that happens again I don't want to play any more! Stupid coach!
On a funny note I was feeling a little bad about the way I talked to the coach, but happy that Jeff backed me up so I told Jeff thanks for having my back. He said "really I was a little disappointed in you"...What?..."Yeah I really thought you were going to tell him off, you were much nicer then I expected"!
Today I jumped all over my son's football coach after the game. Dakota is not the best player on the team, but he plays his heart out and he loves the game and being part of the team. He usually plays between 8 and 12 plays in a game, but today they only put him in twice! It was not like we were loosing...in fact we won 25 to 0. 18 of the 25 points scored in the 1st half. We keep thinking any minute they will put him in, and I know Dakota was thinking the same thing.
When there was only two minutes left in the game I see my crushed little boy take off the helmet and go sit on the bench!
Ok I was mad at this point and planed on talking to the coach to see what his reason was for not playing Dakota. When the game ended we walked on to the field to get Dakota and he came over to us very upset and said "they told us to enjoy our win, but I can't, it was not my win because I did not get to play"!
Oh, I saw Red! I was so mad I was shaking! I walked right over to the coach and asked why he did not play Dakota. At first he gave me some crap about some kids did not play because they were not where they needed to be and they were horsing around. I said "No Dakota was right behind you through the whole game and all the kids played more then Dakota". Then he said "we told you at the beginning of the year some kids would not get to play much". I told him that is not what we were told. We were told they only allowed 25 kids on a team so all the kids got enough play time. Then I said Dakota is at every practice and he works just as hard as all of the other kids and he deserves to play too!I also told him when the score is 25 to 0 there is no excuse not to play all the kids. I told him this better not happen again, and he tried to keep talking to me but I walked off to go talk to the president of the program.I was really afraid that if I said much more to him I would regret what I said! So my husband finished talking to him and told him again that we felt that this was just not fair, and it really hurt and embarrassed Dakota. He told Jeff "I take all the blame and I am sorry". Uh ok who else would we blame?? Oh and thanks for now taking the blame after you first tried to blame it on Dakota...Jerk!
So I catch the President. I told him Dakota was really upset that he was only allowed to play two plays and that this was not how he should be treated! He was shocked, and then I told him that if this happened to him again we would take him out of the league and tell everyone how the coaches treated him! He assured me that it would not happen again and that he would be have a long talk with the coach!
It just broke my heart to see the tears in my son's eyes today! This was suppose to be fun for him and now he feels like his is not good enough! They could not have made him feel like he was less a part of this team then they did today! Tonight he told me if that happens again I don't want to play any more! Stupid coach!
On a funny note I was feeling a little bad about the way I talked to the coach, but happy that Jeff backed me up so I told Jeff thanks for having my back. He said "really I was a little disappointed in you"...What?..."Yeah I really thought you were going to tell him off, you were much nicer then I expected"!