Ok, ok, my turn...momstwo, I have three sons, and all three of them play sports - mostly football (one in High School, the other two still on Youth teams)...I am also a ref (and I know that some discount that because I do NCAA Women's ball instead of Men's) so my wife and I have always had a rule with our sons - they ALWAYS shake the official's hand and tell them "Thank you, sir/ma'am) after every game...and while we have had discussions about bad calls in the car on the way home, because my kids shook their hands, they realized that those refs were people, and people make mistakes, and there is really NOTHING they or their parents can do about that except play harder the next game. That's the bottom line...
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