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I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet and was having a tantrum for a while last night. She’s smart and figured out we will take her out of the bedroom if

by wil421 4y ago

I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet and was having a tantrum for a while last night. She’s smart and figured out we will take her out of the bedroom if she says she has to pee pee. After 4 times of playing around in the bathroom and only one time actually using it she finally went to bed after asking me to adjust the covers 30 times. All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents?

spoils19 4y ago
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- callalex 4y ago
  You need a media break, identity politics is consuming you.
  - xydinesh 4y ago
    I totally agree. If someone making a generalization, chances are they may be wrong.
ninjagoo 4y ago
> All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents? An ugly person.
Scubabear68 4y ago
It was a NJ/NY tournament with a lot of rivalry and prestige for the winners. Some parents get very, ridiculously caught up in the excitement of their kids' sports, and a very small number go too far. I have seen parents fighting in the stands at 10U football games (10 and under). I have heard parents screaming at coaches threatening to sue them. I have seen parents mocking and degrading the opposing team's kids. I have seen parents encouraging taunts and chants from the crowd to throw off a pitcher or a quarter back. I've seen a nasty, abusive man ejected from a high school building entirely for cursing and screaming at opposing kids. And of course we had CPS called on us. It's only a very small percentage, but they really ruin the experience for everyone.
- ballenf 4y ago
  It's even less serious stuff than this that has me thinking kids' involvement in those leagues isn't net-positive. But I'm sure there are more positive experiences than negative. And I'd probably think differently if I was super competitive or more sports-oriented.
  - PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
    The issue is not the kids' involvement, it's the parents'. (former lacrosse and then crew parent)
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  A 60yr old died during some incident like this in Michigan during the last couple of days.
  - Scubabear68 4y ago
    And sometimes coaches are bad actors too, here a coach broke a 72 year old ref’s jaw: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/nj-youth-baseball-umpire-violently-attacked-by-coach-needed-surgery-for-broken-jaw.html?outputType=amp https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/nj-youth-baseball-umpire-vio...
- khazhoux 4y ago
  Sounds like it's a shitty scene, tbh. Is it really a healthy place for your kids? Never heard any yelling at my kids' piano recitals.
masklinn 4y ago
> I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet My brother in christ 3 years old is a bit young to hit the tables.
- wil421 4y ago
  Sigh. Not sure why it’s so difficult to comment on my phone vs a computer.
  - masklinn 4y ago
    Small keyboard + autocorrect is just stupid. I have the same issue, and I still regularly miss typos even though I try to QC before posting. Either that or mini-strokes. At least this was funny and easy to understand, sometimes I’m careless and it’s such complete gibberish if I come back to the comment an hour later I don’t understand what I wanted to write.
    - mjevans 4y ago
      Autoincorrect can be bad enough, but speech to text can deliver some really concerning mistakes.
      - masklinn 4y ago
        I don’t even try TTS, Siri is unable to grok even basic commands.
        efreak 4y ago
        Not sure about STT (TTS is reading out articles, etc) but when it comes to autocorrect, Google seems worse. Any time a seeming typo starts getting common, I nearly always recognize it as an Android thing. Maybe Apple's autocorrect doesn't try to change your words, but Google constantly does. Just a few weeks ago the big one was changing `lets` to `let's`, to the point that I changed my wording and just used `allows` to avoid making corrections. I will see a number of posts on Reddit and occasionally here on HN with this mistake. It seems to have stopped for me around last week, but I expect a different common word will be butchered soon.

by wil421 4y ago

spoils19 4y ago

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callalex 4y ago
You need a media break, identity politics is consuming you.
- xydinesh 4y ago
  I totally agree. If someone making a generalization, chances are they may be wrong.

ninjagoo 4y ago

> All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents? An ugly person.

Scubabear68 4y ago

It was a NJ/NY tournament with a lot of rivalry and prestige for the winners. Some parents get very, ridiculously caught up in the excitement of their kids' sports, and a very small number go too far. I have seen parents fighting in the stands at 10U football games (10 and under). I have heard parents screaming at coaches threatening to sue them. I have seen parents mocking and degrading the opposing team's kids. I have seen parents encouraging taunts and chants from the crowd to throw off a pitcher or a quarter back. I've seen a nasty, abusive man ejected from a high school building entirely for cursing and screaming at opposing kids. And of course we had CPS called on us. It's only a very small percentage, but they really ruin the experience for everyone.

ballenf 4y ago
It's even less serious stuff than this that has me thinking kids' involvement in those leagues isn't net-positive. But I'm sure there are more positive experiences than negative. And I'd probably think differently if I was super competitive or more sports-oriented.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  The issue is not the kids' involvement, it's the parents'. (former lacrosse and then crew parent)
PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
A 60yr old died during some incident like this in Michigan during the last couple of days.
- Scubabear68 4y ago
  And sometimes coaches are bad actors too, here a coach broke a 72 year old ref’s jaw: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/nj-youth-baseball-umpire-violently-attacked-by-coach-needed-surgery-for-broken-jaw.html?outputType=amp https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/nj-youth-baseball-umpire-vio...
khazhoux 4y ago
Sounds like it's a shitty scene, tbh. Is it really a healthy place for your kids? Never heard any yelling at my kids' piano recitals.

masklinn 4y ago

> I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet My brother in christ 3 years old is a bit young to hit the tables.

wil421 4y ago
Sigh. Not sure why it’s so difficult to comment on my phone vs a computer.
- masklinn 4y ago
  Small keyboard + autocorrect is just stupid. I have the same issue, and I still regularly miss typos even though I try to QC before posting. Either that or mini-strokes. At least this was funny and easy to understand, sometimes I’m careless and it’s such complete gibberish if I come back to the comment an hour later I don’t understand what I wanted to write.
  - mjevans 4y ago
    Autoincorrect can be bad enough, but speech to text can deliver some really concerning mistakes.
    - masklinn 4y ago
      I don’t even try TTS, Siri is unable to grok even basic commands.
      - efreak 4y ago
        Not sure about STT (TTS is reading out articles, etc) but when it comes to autocorrect, Google seems worse. Any time a seeming typo starts getting common, I nearly always recognize it as an Android thing. Maybe Apple's autocorrect doesn't try to change your words, but Google constantly does. Just a few weeks ago the big one was changing `lets` to `let's`, to the point that I changed my wording and just used `allows` to avoid making corrections. I will see a number of posts on Reddit and occasionally here on HN with this mistake. It seems to have stopped for me around last week, but I expect a different common word will be butchered soon.