Sideline Rage -- Sports Parents Go Berserk [Correction 7/22/08]

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 14, 2008| Author: Shankar Vedantam | Copyright information

Among psychologists who study sports, there is a code word for parents who lose their temper standing on the sidelines of their children's soccer, baseball and football games: THOSE parents -- Tempestuous, Harried, Overwrought, Self-absorbed and Emotional.

Jay Goldstein has spent years studying the species in and around Washington. Once, at a soccer tournament in Virginia, Goldstein got an urgent call on his tournament director's radio. One kid had tackled another, and both had slid ...

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