You opened Instagram on the bus on Wednesday morning and there was your child's worst moment of the season. The clearest missed shot of the year. A wide-open net at the back post. The ball gone over the bar by about a metre. 47 likes. Posted by another parent in the squad on Tuesday night with a caption about the team's defensive lapses. Your child's full name is in the caption. The video is from training, not the match. Nobody asked your permission, and nobody asked your child. You feel the kind of hot anger that needs to be put somewhere productive before you reply. Sport Integrity Australia's national guidance, the Football Australia Code of Conduct, and Australia's social media minimum age law all say the parent who posted that video has crossed a line. Here is what they crossed, the conversation to have with the parent first, and the exact thing to ask the club to do about it.

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