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Youth sports coach texted the parent group chat insulting the kids

Accidental text messages insulting players leave parents humiliated, anxious, and debating whether to pull their child from the team. Compounding this disorganization, chaotic schedule changes made without notice leave families scrambling and waiting hours for answers.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    going to games and acting like nothing ever happened
  2. 2
    contacting the league board about the coach
  3. 3
    pulling the child from the team entirely
  4. 4
    Manually checking the app events tab frequently to look for unannounced changes
  5. 5
    Relying on group chats or turning on app notifications

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/Parenting2 people · September 2026

“Today the coach accidentally texted the parent group chat that the team was bad and 6 of the kids have no business playing baseball.”source ↗

“I assumed he is talking about my kid and got so upset I had to leave work to cry in the parking lot for 20 minutes.”source ↗

“Honestly I want to just pull him. I dont want to see that coach and everytime my son strikes out im going to be think that everyone else is saying "that coach was right".”source ↗

Ok_Industry4950 · r/Parenting · 21 upvotes

“Then the day of the game I just happened to check the events tab to double check the address of the field, and it was an hour earlier and they hadn’t notified anyone.”source ↗

riiitaxo · r/Parenting · 1 upvotes

“it’s weekly that practice times/locations are changing and they either just don’t tell anyone or change it moments before we’re already supposed to be somewhere.”source ↗

“It’s a little frustrating getting 2 kids + a baby ready and either not going, having to rapidly go somewhere else or wait hours for a response from the coach”source ↗

riiitaxo · r/Parenting

Where this came up

r/Parentinganxietycommunicationparentingyouth sports

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