{"id":1210,"date":"2012-07-29T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T01:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2012-07-29T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T01:25:57","slug":"are-you-a-competitive-parent-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/are-you-a-competitive-parent-part-3","title":{"rendered":"Are You A Competitive Parent? Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"littleIn this series, there has been a post about competing in education<\/a>, and competing in toilet training and weaning. <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This post is about competing in sports.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

No – not as in the kids competing as they play –<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

it's about the parent's competing with each other as to whose kid is good, better, best.      <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"umpire-separating-parents\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We have all read the tales of parents fighting with each <\/span><\/span>other at Little League games, fighting with the umpir<\/span><\/span>es<\/span><\/span> or screaming at the kids…their kids and the other kids.
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Ditto a<\/span><\/span>\"soccer\"<\/span><\/span>t soccer games. The kids are there<\/span><\/span> to have fun and learn "sportsmanship" but the parents are teaching a far different lesson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And cheerleading? I do recall news about a mother hiring a hit-man to kill her daughter's rival!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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So why are the parents competing with each other? Why not let the kids have fun and enjoy the sport?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Are the parents that ego involved in their kid's sports <\/span><\/span>because they see it as a ticket-to-wealth or a ticket-to-college?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Or is it to give a boost to what they consider their great parenting skills? And show that off to everyone else?
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Next up: parties
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Thoughts? Comments? Additionall areas of competition? Thank you for your input….
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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.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[519,532,307,506,385,517,480,360,518],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting-2","tag-cheerleading","tag-child-development","tag-child-rearing","tag-competition","tag-human-interest","tag-little-league","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-soccer","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}