What types of parents are the worst to deal with???

LMAO! Lock the thread. Best answer ever on SportsJournalists.com

 

JBHawkeye...been there, dealt with that plenty of times...the dad or mom whose son/daughter has "progressed" up through the ranks and you have to cover everything about them, from when they have their initial fart to hitting for the cycle..
i've had dads whose sons played in junior high and be entering high school the following year who would grin like a possum eating cabbage and say, "well, you'll be writing about my son the next four years."
and my urge is to reply:" Oh, you mean he will be in the police arrest report the next four years?"

 

In record time, too.

 

Ones who have the sports department's phone number.

Or e-mail address.

 

My wife asks the same question...it is kind of strange. Think about the inane things parents say to us and try to relate them to any other part of the paper...it makes the parents seem so trivial. LOL

 

i guess i'll start finding out about swimming parents. our city recently got a youth program and they're already invading the premises for coverage. i have heard from so many colleagues of mine that swimming parents may be the most overbearing and toughest to deal with. should i wear armor when conducting interviews, covering meets, etc.?

 

Lacrosse parents are the new soccer parents. Major chip on their shoulder, and they can't understand why anybody wouldn't think their sport is the best thing EVAR.

 

the worst parents are those who work at the paper, but not on the editorial side, and want you do a favor every time jimmy pulls garbage time.

 

Or the ones who come complain to you for the results not in the paper. I just send them back downstairs and tell the coach to report the scores for once in her life.

I can't wait for the ME's son to be in high school in a few years.

Another pet peeve of mine is parents who spell a common name differently to be just that...different. And then complain to me when I spell it wrong b/c it's wrong on the OFFICIAL roster. I can't count how many times I've asked a coach this and after stomping his/her foot for a few minutes about how right he is, he asks the kid, who tells him he's wrong.

If they had spelled the damn kid's name correctly at birth, we wouldn't be having this discussion now.

 

Been there, done that, went and found another job.

 

"If they had spelled the damn kid's name correctly at birth, we wouldn't be having this discussion now."

:'( It's such a beautiful sentence. I wish to have it on my gravestone.

That said, the worst parents are every parent who has ever made the argument that slightly less coverage than they wanted may now cost Jimmy or Janey a chance at a college scholarship.

 

They don't bother me as much, for some reason.

Probably because my mind checks out of the conversation immediately upon hearing that phrase.