Content to leave my childhood behind...

After my incident at the baseball park on Saturday, I have realized that I am an adult and while having fun and always being playful will be a part of my personality forever. I am also very content with the fact that I have left my childhood behind a long time ago.

I have never sugar coated my high school years. I have always been very honest that they were not the best years of my life. I was always the butt of the joke, the easy target and I always felt like I never fit in with the other students. Now with that being said if I could go back and change my childhood or school I attended I would never do it. Those experiences have made me who I am today. My self confidence comes from within and I do not put a lot of stock into others opinions of me.

I guess with all that being said that is why I look at this weekends incident as juvenile. My godchild had decided to play school baseball. However after the first practice he decided that he did not like being yelled at by the coach. Yes I was disappointed that I would not be able to watch him play every week, but no one deserves being yelled at. My aunt had called the coaches to inform them of his decision. Plus she had informed another mom about what had happened.

On Saturday, I was at the park watching Clayton play when this mom that my aunt had spoke to approached me and wanted to know if I was mad at Devin for not playing. To which I replied, no he doesn't deserve to be treated like that and I support his choice to quit the team. She played stupid with me and asked what had happened to make him quit and I told her he didn't like the coach yelling at him. She then snapped back at me that Devin was going around telling everyone he had quit because the team sucked.

OK so are we in Junior High again with the stupid well he said this and she said that crap?
#1. Why does an adult have to make an issue out of what a 13 year old said?
#2. Devin has never played sports for the win or lose aspect of the game. It is just an activity for him.
#3. Since when do Moms and Dads get in the middle of playground figths. I went through crap when I was in Jr. High as I said before. My parents never came to school, called a parent, or a child about what went on during recess.
#4. I'm not the parent if you have an issue with the child call his parents. Don't confront the godmother.
#5. Do parents really need to strap a book sack to their back (or in my case sling a book sack onto one shoulder...because back in my day only nerds wore their book sacks on both shoulders)and head to school to relive their childhood with their children.

Today's parents are raising children incapable of their own thoughts, reliant on others to make decisions for them, and unable to cope with negativity, failure and conflict.

and the parent of the year award goes to......