Also, as some of you may or may not know, I have a child due at the end of April so I feel like I could weigh in on this. I know it's how I would train my child up to be. We're not interested in partaking of crazy confrontational behavior (even if it's brought to us)......we just focus on doing our job on the lane. Period. Everything will fall into place and the crazy parents provide us an example of what we do not want to be.
Agreed. and Congratulations on the child!
As far as belligerent parents, It is one of the things that I really can not stand. I say that because not of only how immature they are acting, but like mentioned above, the child will grow up thinking that that is how they are supposed to behave.
Not good.
I know I've harped on this many a post here, but each victory and defeat I've seen Jack Jurek have over his career are probably the biggest life lessons that can ever be taught. You win with humility, you lose with grace. And when you lose, you take that as a lesson of what you can do to improve, and motivation for the next time.
I remember in my youth bowling where I had patterns to my performance, where I would be on one week, then off the following week. I didn't focus on the time when I was on, because I knew I was doing good, but always feared the following week because I was off, and knew I'd cop a spraying from my mother when I was bowling poorly. And those times when I did really did not help with my confidence at all.
But what I also knew was that I had that good week coming after that bad week. So I kept with it. It doesn't bother me when I lose now, because it's a learning lesson. And these parents that get overly worked up definitely are losing perspective on things, and really need to be reminded of that. Unfortunately their ego and esteem get in the way of that because they take any constructive criticism of how they are acting as an attack on their ability to raise their children.
I'm reminded of a PSA involving a little league baseball game, where a parent or coach argues an umpire's call, gets really loud and ejected from the game... then actually stops on his way out with his child to help the umpire when his car had broken down. I'll try to find it. Damn well worth every parent to watch it.
BL.