That you think a coach and his or her backers is even a point is sad, and pathetic. What makes a successful coach? Is it how many parents like you beg for her attention?

When kids are in an activity, the praise should come from the coach to the kids, from the parents to the kids when they see how well the child is progressing and maintaining satisfaction with the activity. Not the other way around.

I hope the anti-bullying programs give helpful tips for girls and how to deal with the "mean girl" aspect of bullying. That type of bullying is snide, subtle, exclusionary, and usually not overt, but equally as harmful to the girls who are targeted. Girls can be catty, cliquish, and downright mean with their words.

You must have your lips all puckered up on that behind. Is that how you get the job done? Apply chap stick to those big lips, latch on and sink your claws in to each coach at each atcivity your kid wants to be in, bend over backwards to get shine time for your untalented child, wear down the person so you get what you want, and then follow them around like a puppy dog. Do you have one that should be on the ground but is up in the air causing injury to the ones down below? Do you have one that can't jump or is busting out of an outfit, but is there because you bought or bullied a coach? Maybe you have a complexion connection? A bullying Parent.

Dude--- choose what to win at???? That's some real funny horse pucky. How do you do that? Do you video tape kids in sports from a van, go back home, study the video or pics and say to your kid, "Hey join this group you are way more talented then the others and you could be a star!" I am just asking. I like the idea of having stuff the kids can have fun in--hopefully they bond ---but mostly I want them to learn, and have fun and that to me is all the winning necessary.

Last thought for I go. There have been teachers, coaches and students that had the favor of many people. That did not stop justice from being served. For example-----the rash of band directors that messed around. They committed sexual crimes, a different kind of wrong against a kid I know. I don't know if they were warned ahead of time, point is each and everyone of them has and had lsts of support. Supporters don't mean you are correcter or righter or successfuller. They could all be blinder. At the leest, it means that supporters are like butt holes----everybody has one. Certain situation could be avoided b'cse there was signs and warnings. Were there signs?