First Day Outside & First Parent Encounter

We had our first practice outside this Saturday. The practice started off with me arriving an hour early before practice started to get everything set up and for me to finish my lunch.
Right away we had an incident. An incident in the first fifteen minutes of being outside with the team. All the kids were playing catch and one of the balls sailed away from their partner and hit another player in the head. He obviously went down, holding his head and groaning from pain. Coaches and players gathered around to see the potential damage, but he jumped right back up and kept going. Wiping the tears away from his eyes and cheeks, he continued his game of catch.

Next thing on the agenda was to split up in to a fielding and hitting group. Since I was an infielder growing up, I teach infield to the boys. So I took the infielders over to hit first. We had two full outfields to use because the infields were sloshed and full of puddles. I had another "coach" working with me during the hitting and this was were I had my first encounter with the infamous, my kid comes first and what works for my kid will work for everybody else. When I ran over to talk to the other coaches, I came back to him conducting a little team meeting. He was giving hitting "advice" and what was being said was incorrect. I immediately took the boys away and told them to switch fields and begin fielding practice. I went over to the other head coach and told him what had happened and to keep an eye on his outfielders while hitting, to make sure they get proper instruction.