> What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents?

I find this to be common in liberal states, from talking with my friends. In conservative, religious states, children are raised with discipline and there isn't any helicopter parenting at all.

You need a media break, identity politics is consuming you.

I totally agree. If someone making a generalization, chances are they may be wrong.

> All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents?

An ugly person.

It was a NJ/NY tournament with a lot of rivalry and prestige for the winners.

Some parents get very, ridiculously caught up in the excitement of their kids' sports, and a very small number go too far. I have seen parents fighting in the stands at 10U football games (10 and under). I have heard parents screaming at coaches threatening to sue them. I have seen parents mocking and degrading the opposing team's kids. I have seen parents encouraging taunts and chants from the crowd to throw off a pitcher or a quarter back. I've seen a nasty, abusive man ejected from a high school building entirely for cursing and screaming at opposing kids. And of course we had CPS called on us.

It's only a very small percentage, but they really ruin the experience for everyone.

It's even less serious stuff than this that has me thinking kids' involvement in those leagues isn't net-positive. But I'm sure there are more positive experiences than negative. And I'd probably think differently if I was super competitive or more sports-oriented.

The issue is not the kids' involvement, it's the parents'.

(former lacrosse and then crew parent)

A 60yr old died during some incident like this in Michigan during the last couple of days.

And sometimes coaches are bad actors too, here a coach broke a 72 year old ref’s jaw:

https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/nj-youth-baseball-umpire-vio...

Sounds like it's a shitty scene, tbh. Is it really a healthy place for your kids?

Never heard any yelling at my kids' piano recitals.

> I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet

My brother in christ 3 years old is a bit young to hit the tables.

Sigh. Not sure why it’s so difficult to comment on my phone vs a computer.

Small keyboard + autocorrect is just stupid. I have the same issue, and I still regularly miss typos even though I try to QC before posting. Either that or mini-strokes.

At least this was funny and easy to understand, sometimes I’m careless and it’s such complete gibberish if I come back to the comment an hour later I don’t understand what I wanted to write.

Autoincorrect can be bad enough, but speech to text can deliver some really concerning mistakes.

I don’t even try TTS, Siri is unable to grok even basic commands.

Not sure about STT (TTS is reading out articles, etc) but when it comes to autocorrect, Google seems worse. Any time a seeming typo starts getting common, I nearly always recognize it as an Android thing. Maybe Apple's autocorrect doesn't try to change your words, but Google constantly does. Just a few weeks ago the big one was changing `lets` to `let's`, to the point that I changed my wording and just used `allows` to avoid making corrections. I will see a number of posts on Reddit and occasionally here on HN with this mistake. It seems to have stopped for me around last week, but I expect a different common word will be butchered soon.

Sooner you start logging those 10,000 hours of practice, sooner you can start making real money

> a bit young to hit the tables

I suspect it was a typo. What he meant to type was "she hates betting when she loses".