Soccer Drama

As long as I've been in the Allen family, I've heard the story of how Mom Allen "beat up the paperboy". Apparently he had been making fun of her kids on a regular basis and she had decided that enough was enough. Now, I've never really believed that she actually beat the kid up. I know my mother in law to be a very kind and gentle woman. When asking Blaine the details of what really happened, he said he thought she grabbed his shirt and while pointing in his face threatened to "knock his block off" if he continued to pick on her kids (it was the 80's...you could totally do things like that back then). This story always makes me laugh when I hear it. Well, last night at Bella's soccer scrimmage (she is in the tumbleweed division for 3-5 year olds), I had a moment when I really thought about knocking a five year olds block off. It went something like this...

Bella and Sophie (her BFF) were mostly just hanging out on the field, holding hands, talking about who knows what, skipping around, and not paying any attention to the ball. They were oblivious to the soccer game going on around them. Their coach had told them to stay in their positions, and they pretty much didn't move. Tasha (Sophie's mom) and I started to notice a little blonde haired girl that kept coming up to our girls and getting in their faces. We started wondering if this little girl was talking smack to Bella and Sophie? Then the little girl started pushing them. She would push them, run off, and then come running back to them and push them some more. Once I saw her point really forcefully into Bella's face (and later I learned that she was yelling "loser" to Bella). Well, enough was enough. A primal instinct kicked in and I became a mother bear who needed to protect her cub. As Bella neared the sideline, this little blondie followed her to push her. I ran up to her and in my Mama Bear's voice told hert to stop pushing and that it isn't nice, etc. And then with my blood boiling, I told Bella, who was crying and hugging my leg telling me she didn't want to play soccer anymore, to get back into the game and if that little girl pushed her again, to push her back (Not exactly the turn the other cheek philosophy...woops) My sweet Bella looked up at me and through her tears said, "But Mom, that isn't nice!" Now, normally I don't condone aggression. I definitely don't want to encourage it yet at the same time, I want my kids to stick up for themselves. It was painful watching Bella getting bullied like that and I really wanted to teach that little girl a lesson. What really irritated me was that it was obvious that this little girl was pushing everyone around and not one parent or coach ever said a darn thing to her. Where is the discipline, people? I hope I scared that little girl a bit. She is only 5 and already a huge bully. I can definitely say that I understand the paperboy story now on a whole new level and I kind of wished I would have grabbed blondie by the shirt and threatened to "knock her block off". But can a social worker do that with out losing her license? Hmmmm...

Soccer Stars..or something like that!

They became the black team during the scrimmage. You can tell how serious they are about the game...

I think they are doing their hair here.

See that little blonde girl right behind Sophie and Bella? One second later and I probably would have gotten a push on camera!