This is for Olathe North 171 about kids needing to let out their emotions. You're right, but on the mat in an unsportsmanlike way is inappropriate. I'm speaking as a parent of a child with a very bad transition year to 8-under. I didn't care if he got upset after a match, cried or whatever. But if he threw his headgear, I jumped him, unless Coach beat me to it. That's inexcusable in my book. Sure, it was hard for an 8-year-old to learn to handle that much emotion -- after putting his heart and everything he had into a match, he lost. When that happened, there was no talking to him, he just wanted to be left alone. Fine. The only rule was that I had to know where he was going to calm down and I would watch from a respectful distance. When he was ready for socializing, he came to me.