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Originally Posted by DementedReality
A culture
1. where a coach feels its ok to talk down to the parents on the team and tell them when they are allowed to talk to him. i felt like telling him my when I am "open" as well, or is just a one way street? Hey Coach, if you want to talk to me about my kids game, i wont talk to you if its more than 30 minutes before or after a game. seems silly, no?
2. a culture where the Association Insiders act as if they are somehow big wigs in the rink. where the wealthy mom's stick there nose in the air at everyone else. and dont tell me im making it up, i had enough PM's about this experience from others.
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perhaps it is just me, but man you really seem bitter over all this and you are not getting some of the message that HC is trying to convey......
a good coach would not talk down to the parents on the team. you are clearly not getting it about the 24 hour rule - it is meant to protect everyone (coaches and parents) from being exposed to a situation that could escalate - why would you want to expose yourself or your kid to that? If you really want to have a discussion with your childs coach - then it can wait 24 hours.
who cares what these wealthy moms do - if they act elitest at the hockey rink they likely do the same thing at Safeway, the Spa or the mall.....that is who they are.
if you don't like the association insiders, then stay away from them - like it or not, to some extent they are important in the context of making hockey happen for the kids - some of them will be full of themselves, while other will not be - sort of like people in any workplace.
generally speaking a hockey practice starts with some basic skating - some kids really need this to reinforce the fundamentals, while others are already advanced skaters......some parents already got or understood what the video was telling them, while others needed a reminder. at the end of the day the video was 1 hour - think of how many hours you will spend this winter getting to and from the rink, getting skates sharpened, being at the rink.....