u/Familiar_Cable8647 — reddlx

My son is 7 and has been very negative and disrespectful lately. He is a good kid for the most part, but we’ve just been having to have a lot of talks with him lately. Last week he was being super disrespectful at soccer practice, he kept complaining about calls and telling the coach he was wrong. When other kids messed up he would complain and throw his hands up. He did great and hustled the whole practice which sometimes he doesn’t do so I was proud of him but I had to tell him to be positive and stop complaining more than once.

After practice I tried to keep it short and sweet and tell him he could have the ice cream his cousin bought him, but he had to go apologize to his coaches. He apologized to the coach that didn’t see his behavior and he started crying. I tried to speak up so his other coach could hear me by saying I’m not mad at him I wanted him to apologize for being disrespectful. The coach said it’s okay and I could tell he was upset my son was crying. He said he’s little and it’s fine sometimes that just happens in the moment. The other coach that he was giving attitude to is so nice and patient that it made me angry with my son for acting like that.

I do not raise my son to act that way. It made me feel bad that now I look like I was scolding him. Which sometimes I have to do, but I definitely just tried to teach him. Personally, I do not like bratty kids and I refuse to have my son thinking it’s okay. I feel embarrassed a little now, just because I made it a bigger deal than it had to be. The coach didn’t seem to mind. Am I wrong?