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I would only talk to your son about it. You can't always expect to change the world and how they live their lives. You can ask your son how he feels about it, and if it bothers him. Tell him it upsets you, and that you would never want him to use language like that etc.

I guess if parents were telling kids to really do that, I would be more upset, or if kids were actually trying to trip him or hurt him...but the thing is, sports are WAY more competitive than we remember then being. All we can do is teach our kids what is acceptable to us.

I was a Nanny for a boy who was part of a K/1st grade team. There was a 1st grader there who was the son of very short man. He had very short man syndrome too. His son hated basketball, but could shoot a 3 pointer pretty reliably. That guy never let his kid play and have fun. He would berate him from the sidelines about which kids to "take on" and "run down"...what shot to shoot when...

His kid hated him.