Children who express their wishes through constant whining often represent a multifaceted annoyance: in private surroundings it has the effect of an educational challenge and in public spaces it is also a disturbance of the peace. However, it is one of those problems that society has to patiently deal with. Children whine, nag, whine and beg to achieve their goals, that was probably the case with the cave dwellers. Only the monsters among the ancestors would have come up with the idea of banning them from the cave because of the whining – if only because the saber-toothed tiger was roaming around outside.
Children today enjoy full rights and are protected by militant lobbyists. They no longer have to fear sanctions if they maraud through the supermarket and force their parents to buy Prinz Poldi biscuits. No merchant would dare throw her out because of this. No other customer would dare to complain about harassment.
It is therefore a courageous act that Ajax Amsterdam has now declared war on the Quengel children. The Dutch football club no longer wants to tolerate so-called “May I have your jersey” signs in the stadium. Security personnel are required to confiscate signs, posters or towels at the entrances to the Johan Cruyff Arena.
It all started innocently – and is now a competition that feeds mortal sins
The club’s reasoning: The requests made mainly by children have become all too fashionable, too many petitions have recently appeared in the stands. Players often had to endure angry reactions because they could not fulfill the wishes. And when a professional gave away his jersey, it was abused again and again: the children – or their parents – then sold it to the highest bidder on the Internet. There have also been fights or even fights after a jersey was handed over the fence.
Each of these reasons gives you food for thought. Things started out quite harmlessly at some point, when an innocent child drew a nice poster to address their favorite player, perhaps decorated with a heart. In the meantime, this has turned into a brutal cut-throat competition in Europe’s stadiums, which, among other things, feeds the deadly sin of greed and sows violence in the minds of minors. Ajax Amsterdam are therefore expressly to be thanked for this ban, which is not only a service to football but also to pedagogy.
