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As a parent of two players, a 13-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, I would like to see more games conducted like this.
I have served as volunteer referee for my children's games over the years and this is the first year I have had difficulty with parents in nearly every game.
I'm not speaking of the 13-year-old's games.
I am talking about the 6-year-old's.
Last Saturday, I finally got fed up with a group of parents and their coach in a 6- to 7-year-old game and had to stop the game twice to talk to the coach and a mother on the sideline regarding her comments about my "poor calls."
I offered my whistle to one father whose comment back to me was, "I've already refereed a game today."
Then why is this guy acting like this if he is a referee himself?
From my observation of running up and down the field for an hour, it seemed to me that this particular hyper-competitive group of parents was broken into two factions: negative and positive parents.
After my exchange with the father (aka, referee dad), I heard a mother and her family seated in their lawn chairs say, "They are the reason why we have to have Silent Saturdays."
Enough said.
