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Jeff Anderson

Life & Death At The Batting Cage (What Would YOU Do?)

I’m a coach for my son’s 3rd grade basketball team (thank God I know hand-to-hand! ;-) )

As a prerequisite, we have to go through a series of online classes.

Well, yesterday, the topic was on “irrational parents”.

Now, I’ve had to deal with my share of dads who felt like their son was better than another boy and deserved to play more than the other kids.

I have my polite ways to tell them to “screw off”.

But the online lesson plan gave a shocking example of where these situations can turn ugly…

…and I’m curious how YOU would have dealt with the situation. (more…)