Dear Meghan: My 8-year-old son is a great kid. I have been coaching his sports team for the last two seasons and really enjoy it, and I love spending time with him. We have one huge issue, though.
He turns into a class clown and is disrespectful to me during practices. I spoke to him about it before practices started this season, but the first practice was frustrating. If someone else was coaching, he wouldn’t be acting this way — not listening, interrupting, trying to constantly be funny for his friends and sometimes doing drills incorrectly or purposefully slow. His behavior isn’t completely out of character, but it’s about two weeks worth of obnoxious behaviors concentrated into one hour.
