Beagle Mafia

done to my child and my life.....

The boy is playing football as you all know. As much he loves playing it and I love to watch him play the sport, I am pretty sure it brings the worst out in him. He has been called all sorts of names from other opponents since he is now playing the line. Such as, poopy face, baby, jerk, a**hole, and my personal favorite jerk o**. Lovely isn't it?

After the one of the plays on Saturday, an opponent on the other team was mouthing off to my son and then proceeded to face mask him. For some reason pulling of the face mask sets my child OFF. And I mean OFF. Next thing I see is my son ramming his helmet head into the back of said opponent. Of course I am horrified while all the other parents are pretty much cheering my irate son on. I can only imagine the reason they are cheering him on is because there is one particular bully on our team that likes to pick on all the younger, smaller children. This kid is about a foot and 1/2 taller them my son and just plain mean. Last practice he swatted at M and M returned the swat with a punch to the face. Normally I would have been horrified but its been a long time coming. All the other parents pretty much thought it was much deserved and wished their children would stand up to him as well. Anyway back to the game......

When he comes off the field, I summon him off and I ask him why he would do that? I get the "well he pulled my face mask" proceeded by "the kid is jerk off MOM". So there I am horrified again that my son would use that terminology. I am SURE the other parents behind me heard him say this. I quickly tell him that his actions and his comments were completely unacceptable and we would talk about it later.

I just think that football is just not my kind of sport. I think its brings out serious aggression in my kid and while I get that is the point, I am not sure I like it. I have like 2 different children when he is playing. I like my nice child better the I like my aggressive child.

And now, I sit here prisoner as both my child and husband watch game after game on Sunday. Is it baseball season yet?