To the parents of children in any sport, pay attention: Your child is not always going to be the best. Don’t yell at me during skating lessons that I’m not doing my job right when your shitty 3-year-old is sitting down on the ice licking his gloves. I can’t force him to join the group. I can’t spend all of my time yelling at him to get up while he refuses to listen when there are other kids in the group. Don’t tell me that he deserves to be in a better group of skaters and that this group is below him. No, your kid sucks and that’s all there is to it. He is not going to be a superstar skater. He doesn’t even want to skate and that is why he is throwing a fucking tantrum um the ice. Don’t blame me. —Pissed off instructor
This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2010.
Yeah, every parent thinks their kid will be the next Sid Crosby and they’ll hit the NHL jackpot so they show up at practices and games and scream and shout and turn kids’ sports into a nightmare for the kids.
Skating lessons at three years old? Let kids be kids.
Yeah. Kid are dumb.
Man, if I were you, I’d be taking a football-sized Prozac before every skate. I can’t fucking believe how mercenary some parents are.
Prozac? OB needs some lorazepam stat
This is an awesome bitch. I know exactly what the OP is talking about. I’ve taught kids stuff, and even though the kids were annoying as hell, the parents are ALWAYS ten times worse. Anyone who has ever worked with children knows this.
And the mom in the next bitch is one of those parents in the making.
Parents are blindly believe their children are saints, angels, or the second coming of Christ. But in fact, most are spoiled, little demon bastards….just like their parents.
I love the part where the kid was licking his gloves…little Ralph Wiggem…lol. KIDS ARE AWESOME!!! Parents are a crazy and competitive….but kids…if you just let them be kids…they’re pretty cool bunch of characters.
I love that your pics are always of Marge RC and now you relate things to the Simpsons too!! This is one of two shows I could watch an episode a million times without getting bored of it.
well, i don’t think you’ll like this new show called “lake shore”. it’s like jersey shore but canadian
http://www.tdotvip.com/wp-content/uploads/…
What a blatant ripoff of an already ghastly show…
I don’t think a Canadian thought this up….
I’m not going to lie, I was a little addicted to Jersey Shore. BUT, generally Canadian versions of American shows are always waaaay worse.
It’s stories like this that make me appreciate my parents a bit more. My mother was quick to ground me when I played the diva card by telling me the world did not revolve around me. My parents were more than willing to put me into any activity I wanted to try, and if I didn’t like it they allowed me to quit, and it was only after they bought a piano and noticed I was spending day and night playing with it that they put me into piano lessons (which I’m VERY grateful they did), but they never forced me to practice and let me go at my own pace. They never made me do anything I didn’t want to do and that’s probably turned me into a half diva in adult hood (I don’t tend to do anything I dont want to do, just ask NGF :P) but at least my childhood wasn’t miserable *shrug*
I’ve never seen an episode of Jersey shore…so I can’t comment on Lake shore…but it sounds silly. …and I’m sure Canada never thought it up … But there has been a few reality TV diva shows that I got caught up in…Real House wife’s OC…. that damn Temptation Island a few years back….that was just scandals….and Gimme some sugar….curiosity I guess???
(PF…I love the Simpsons)
PK How rich are your parents that they could afford to buy you a piano not even knowing if you would take lessons?? lol I was in lessons for a full year practicing on my aunts piano before mine bought me one.
RC- I’m addicted to all of the Real Housewives… so pathetic
My mom plays piano (both my parents are musicians) and she bought it for herself and I happened to take a shinin’ to it 🙂
They bought one, they didn’t buy HER one.
I didn’t mean it in a mean way Heathro… jeez
Aw, don’t get in a tizzy, guys!
lemme guess PK, only child?
*shocked at answer before she gives it*
I am too so I can notice the symptoms.
HAHAHA, yeah, only child here….and I seem to befriend A LOT of only children. Prolly cuz they get it, yo. 😛
Yeah sorry about that asshole comment. I jumped the gun a bit.
I have 11 weeks left in my degree and 12 weeks left in Halifax so I’MALITTLEONEDGE
Hope we’re still friends 🙂
Whatcha studyin’, Heathro?
i hope I’m dead before some of these kids and their “issues” are running things ..dang!
Nursing. Almost done, almost done, almost done..
Hahaha… just be thankful you’re not a swimming instructor and the kid in question wasn’t licking the bottom of the pool. It’s hard to keep an eye on all the children in the water, and even harder to do so when they are below the surface.
Op, you don’t need to refer to little kids so nastily. Try having some pity. How would YOU like to have some prick of a parent using you to live out his or her pathetic dreams of NHL stardom (or whatever else)?? You sound a spoiled, whiny fucking prick yourself- who shouldn’t be working with kids. I knew a kid on my street with parents like this- they forced him into hockey, soccer, gymnastics, and extra language couses; he was also beaten, and when he was 15 he killed himself.
That’s really heartbreaking z. I pray I never push my little guy in anything. He loves sports right now…but that’s in the back yard….we can kick a soccer ball around for hours, but when I put him in soccer tots this year he hated it…we’d go for 20 mins and he’d want to leave…so off to get ice cream it was! Now he wants to play hockey really bad…I got him skates and pads and helmet…can’t wait to see how he does on the ice 🙂
aah good times rc. my favourite memories are when the boy played t-ball. 14 or so kids on each team, some would wonder off, others played in the dirt, when the train would go by they would all run down to see it
http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2010/05/K…
He he, my friend’s little man plays t-ball and I love to watch him when I’m home, mostly because they just have so little focus out there, but they’re having a ball! The coaches are great with them. 🙂
My little man loves to go to baseball fields and we play for hours….I pitch…he hits…every time! He says it’s because he keeps his eye on the ball every time! lol. That’s a cute pic Miss Pain…really cute. I wish they didn’t grow up so fast eh.
I hear you. Be glad that the spawn of these parents wasn’t old enough to talk back. I quit my volunteer commitment as a skating instructor because the kids were such assholes. Direct verbatim quote “This stinks. You suck. 2 big hairy thumbs down.”
Right, I’m glad I could take a hour out of my day to bus out here (each way) to teach kids how to skate. I realize kids rebel, but I can find better ways to spend my time than graciously taking insults from spoiled kids..
Yeah.