About this mums behaviour at kids football?

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I'm sitting next to a mum at football who keeps shouting at her kid! Stuff like "no hands! Use your feet! Get your ball! This is called football, so use your feet! You're rubbish at this! "etc etc
The football is for 3-5y olds, the boy is probably 3-4. She actually said to him she won't take him back next week if he keeps picking the ball up.
I'm too much of a wimp to say anything but what could i say anyway? It's just annoying and really not nice for the boy.
This football is meant to be fun, there's lots of jumping, running, playing around, this mum is just so intense

Wimp here also. A df smoking on the sidelines of an under 15 team last Saturday. . They only play 30 mins a side and the gate to the main road is a minute away! I had ds 3 and ds 8 with me and ds 8 made a comment!! I cringed!!

I would PMSL if I saw this.
A welcome diversion from the tediousness of kids activities.

Poor kid though!

I would speak to the leader of the class and see if they can say something to all parents at the start/end about the aims of the group. I know of sports groups where they have a statement up that goes along the lines of 'remember, the players are children, the coaches are volunteers and this isn't the Champions League'. A reminder of that might come in handy.

You're rubbish at this
What a supportive parent!

Suggest he tries rugby?

I see tonnes of this at horse shows. Competitive parents making their kids feel like absolute shit and sucking all the joy out of a much loved hobby/sport. I've never been like that and never will be. We do really well without all the belittling and bullying, it isn't necessary at all.

I stood next to one 'mom' who was yelling 'take him down, take him DOWN!!!' during a kiddie football session. The kids were max year 4.

This is one of the reasons I hope my DS doesn't get into football; the mouthy parents on the sidelines shouting all sorts at opposition/referees/their own children.

I stand next to some parents at football who seem lovely, but whenever their kid gets the ball they shout at her what to do and then criticise her loudly or sound disappointed. Weird.

DS is goalkeeper for our local U11's team and of course you encourage your DC and congratulate them when they scores/do well etc. But some of the things I hear on a Saturday morning make me cringe!

E.g. "Crock 'im son, go on", "Fucking tackle will you" it's awful.

No more, so what if a parent was smoking, the players were teenagers not toddlers

I wanted to just say "lighten up, they are supposed to be having fun!" But obviously I didn't and will next time avoid sitting near her.
feel sorry for the kid though

Could you not talk to the organisers? That is a horrible way to speak to a child.

I was standing beside him with a toddler. . Plenty of child free places he could have walked away to. I personally don't want my dc to be standing in a cloud of chemicals.
Call me old fashioned. .

you're rubbish at this!

Why would you say that to your child?

OP. Start counteracting it by shouting positive things out every time his Mum is a twat!

There are a couple of kids with parents like this at DS' football . Ive seen one kid get to stressed because his dad constantly bellows at him through the whole thing

I don't take my son to football for this very reason. Other parents. He's 5 mind you so it may change later, but I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut if I heard the comments to the poor kids. Life should be fun.

I totally feel your pain op! Have this every weekend with the same 'soccer mum' bellowing at her child. When they lose a game the poor boy comes off the pitch in tears :(

FA guidelines state that the coaches need to ensure parents ONLY offer words of encouragement from the sidelines, and anything else won't be tolerated.

FA guidelines state that the coaches need to ensure parents ONLY offer words of encouragement from the sidelines, and anything else won't be tolerated

Brilliant, so report this horrible parent please. Her little boy probably would delighted if he never has to play football again.

Not just football...DD did karate...a mum at a sparring competition was on the sidelines screaming at her DD to fucking kick her..my DD...she didn't get a chance..DD was faster...the girl went down like a sack of spuds...burst into tears...the mum just screamed at her...and glared at my DD...

Not just football, dance mums and gym mums are just as bad. I have heard nasty comments made by mums within earshot of kids, often made by lard arses that couldn't manage a brisk walk never mind doing what these kids do.

The authorities should put a stop to the more extreme forms of this behaviour. My dd did Irish dancing and one family was banned because the mother punished her children if they didn't win.

Talk to the coach! Get them to ban her from the touchline

df smoking on the sidelines of an under 15 team last Saturday.

No teenager is going to be harmed by the few imperceptible molecules of smoke that might conceivably drift towards the outdoor pitch from the sidelines, FFS. I don't smoke and I'm not a supporter of smoking but really, let's not get over-dramatic.

Those kids' lungs are more at risk from the emissions from their own parents' cars than they are from someone smoking on the sidelines of an outdoor pitch; it's not like he was passing round a packet of B&H in the changing rooms.