In this series, there has been a post about competing in education, and competing in toilet training and weaning.
This post is about competing in sports.
No – not as in the kids competing as they play –
it's about the parent's competing with each other as to whose kid is good, better, best.
We have all read the tales of parents fighting with each other at Little League games, fighting with the umpires or screaming at the kids…their kids and the other kids.
Ditto at soccer games. The kids are there to have fun and learn "sportsmanship" but the parents are teaching a far different lesson.
And cheerleading? I do recall news about a mother hiring a hit-man to kill her daughter's rival!
So why are the parents competing with each other? Why not let the kids have fun and enjoy the sport?
Are the parents that ego involved in their kid's sports because they see it as a ticket-to-wealth or a ticket-to-college?
Or is it to give a boost to what they consider their great parenting skills? And show that off to everyone else?
Next up: parties