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Father takes illegal hit one step further

Saturday, September 16 2006

I am a big advocate of competitive team sports. I played them growing up and learned several lessons by participating, not to mention had a load of fun. Luckily I never encountered a parent quite like this though...

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Nowadays, as a parent, I can understand wanting retribution or atonement if it were my kid who took the illegal hit, but... I think it's more important to teach your children that 1) the world isn't always fair, 2) there are plenty of cheaters out there, 3) there are proper ways to deal with said cheaters and 4) the independence and confidence to deal with these scenarios on their own. Not by perpetuating a bad scene. As shown so aptly here, any idiot can respond to a bad situation with violence, but it takes a confident, intelligent person to react with dignity and maturity.

It's not what things life throws your way so much as it's how you handle them that defines you as a person.

~tod