do you SHOUT at kdis sport matches?

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cos if you do you make me feel un confortable

i once heard" focus barnaby focus"

he was 6

i cheer my children on at sports days etc but don't shout 'orders' at them. I would rather them know that I was there supporting them than them think i was only there cos i have to be. I also cheer on all the other kids (unless they are going against my kids )

there is a whole sunday kiddy football league opposite my house, the shouting is terrible and the children don't even pay any attention, they've been cmopletely desensitised to it. horrible vile competitive fathers. why don't the referees stop it?

i dread ds getting into it, i would have to tell them to shut up and get into trouble.

Cricket - clapping and a quiet 'well done Axxx' or more likely 'never mind Axxx'.
DD's athletics - I scream like crazy at her

There was one mum in the summer who was VIDEOING her ds playing in a tennis tournament.

So they could analyse after.

He was 7.

I'm hoping dd will be a swimmer like me. I'll deffo be shouting. And probably one of those awful parents sat on the balcony with a stopwatch to make sure the timekeepers are doing their job properly. And tutting at the starter for too many false starts.

Oh yes, I was most undignified at DDs swimming gala being the only Mum hollering. Competitive sports are simply not the done thing at dds school "its the taking part that counts"

I'm a shouty type spectator when the children are involved

how uncooth

Do you know what is really sad?

When you watch the children play football, whether it's training or a match and everytime they do something right or wrong, they immediatley look to the sideline to catch their parents eye.

It's like some of these 6 year olds have spent the last 6 years trying to please and live up to their parents expectations

That is just so sad!

Sabrina, what's interesting, though, is that it's the ones with the shouty, pushy parents who tend to win stuff.

Perhaps we're all being too self-effacingly British?

mine do and i dont

Me either, but I'm definitely in the minority, particularly at tennis things.

And you do read about tennis stars, like the Williams sisters (etc etc), who were pushed and pushed by their parents. Wasn't some female tennis star's dad done for assault not so long ago?

oh no one shouts at tennis
w eclap poitely

sounds much more civilised.
do you do cucumber sandwiches, too?

jamy dodgers it was last time!

pewsey have us value bisuits though

we should have a food-for-sport-specatators thread.

you know, pie and Bovril for football...

Don't forget the Wagon Wheels ! Only time I've eaten them as an adult was at Upton Park.

My friends' parents used to go to the pub during the swimming galas. And on the way home on the coach it was always chips (followed by snogging some boy under a coat so your dad couldn't see).

why dont he american mums jsut take a snack for their kids|?
do they NEEd ot eat?
oh i forgot they are american

I took ds (3.5) to a "ball skills" thing for preschoolers a few weeks ago... one woman in particular was doing the "shouting" thing... by the time they had a mini-game at the end they were all at it (bar me of course!).... ds burst into tears and refused to carry on..... we haven't been back (due to illness, etc) but I have to say I really had to bite my tongue not to tell them to shut up - and won't be going back now. Ds is adamant he doesn't want to go back too.... I really felt the coach should have said something but he was young...

my ds is far too young but I love playing sports and was always proud as a kid if my parents came and watched - they never shouted anything daft but I enjoyed hearing them cheering the whole team if we scored or something or just being positive, made me want to play better - I've have been motified if they'd shouted at me to try harder/to better etc
don't know if ds will want to play sports but if he does I'll be one of those mums on the side lines cheering him on

I agree with Zog. I wouldn't shout anything personal, but surely nothing wrong with a bit of supportive COME ON , is there?

no not at all

btu its the bullying fomr the sidelines

ds1 is doing a locla authority funded cricket thing and there is a code of conduct forparents ont ehback including "do nto pusnish your kid whne they dont suceed"
ffs!

we had area sports day in the rain once, and having entered me for all the races in my year and the year above me my loverly father went and sat in the minibus with a couple of beers. but he did like to shout at us all alot, to encourage us you understand.
Therefore ~I feel really awful for kids with those parents who shout at them, although I do it secretly.
I'm trying to enter into the spirit of this thread but failing dismally I fear.