I wouldn't give a rats )#($ about being labled a difficult parent by some clowns in an eigth grade sports program.
In fact, I might even be proud of it.
Your son needs solid guidance and a good example. Remind your son that there will always be people out there motivated by self interest, willing to take advantage of you. That's what his coaches are. They don't care about HIM, they just want a winning team.
A few years from now when he's failed his classes and trying to decide what to do with his life, you think those coaches are going to help him out!!? They'll be too focused on the next kid who can catch a ball.
Remind your son of that.
Other than the football, kids will always push the boundaries.
You can't know right from wrong without doing a little wrong along the way.
Somebody said parenting is like getting pecked to death by a duck - I like that, but I think it can also be turned around. Good parenting is a result of many little decisions and actions.
You're never going to sit your kid down - smack him around for all that he's done wrong - and hope his life takes a new route for the better.
It takes a million small corrections.
So I say don't be looking for one fix, just keep making the right small fixes. Draw solid boundaries that can't be crossed and make them clear.
He's old enough now to start considering what kind of man he wants to be in this world.
Remind him that it's no longer up to you to shape him, but that's up to him to decide, and the decisions he makes now will determine what he becomes later.
When my son does something wrong, I tell him that if that's the kind of person he wants to be, then it's his choice, nothing I can do to stop him. And I can usually leave it at that.
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