{"id":2452017,"date":"2019-12-09T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-hockey-parents-unruly-kids-belong-in-penalty-box\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:52:36","slug":"aspen-hockey-parents-unruly-kids-belong-in-penalty-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-hockey-parents-unruly-kids-belong-in-penalty-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen hockey parents, unruly kids belong in penalty box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To the hockey parents and team who had lunch at the Hickory House on Sunday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">My husband and I were enjoying our lunch when your very large group of adults and children invaded the dining room like a swarm of locusts. All of the parents sat at one large table and all of the children sat at two smaller tables, which were located apart from each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The children were out of control \u2014 self-centered, ill-mannered and noisy. They had poor table manners and were unable to sit down for any length of time, going back and forth between their two tables. The parents talked among themselves and did very little to attempt to manage their children\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I suspect that the children\u2019s behavior is typical for them and that they act the same way at home, at school and at other public places. Their behavior did not reflect well on the hockey program or on their parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Out of control behavior is not acceptable anywhere. Permitting it when children are young only encourages worse behavior as the children grow up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Janet Roberts<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-hockey-parents-unruly-kids-belong-in-penalty-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the hockey parents and team who had lunch at the Hickory House on Sunday: My husband and I were enjoying our lunch when your very large group of adults and children invaded the dining room like a swarm of locusts. All of the parents sat at one large table and all of the children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:11:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452048,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452017\/revisions\/2452048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}