A group of mothers in the Mars area are forming a rather interesting organization.

Mothers Against Parent Bullying.

The formation of the group is based on treatment of baseball players of Little League age or even younger.

Bullying has certainly become a topic in the forefront of society in recent months, with huge sports entities such as World Wrestling Entertainment engineering ad campaigns to end bullying of kids by other kids in school.

But bullying of kids by parents is a whole different concept.

The group in Mars maintains that boys as young as 6 or 7 years old are being turned off baseball as coaches are not encouraging them to improve their skills because some are not displaying enough skills at that age.

Rather than work with a kid in that situation, the child is either subjected to riding the bench or is cut from the team.

The idea of “cutting” a 7 or 8-year-old child from any team is ludicrous. But if there are too many kids wanting to play at that age and not enough teams to house them all, one can see where it could happen.

Mothers Against Parent Bullying also wants to promote the idea of more parents getting involved in coaching youngsters, therefore creating room for more teams to be formed, so no child has to get cut.

This group also believes too much pressure is being put on kids to win at too young an age.

“These kids get screamed at from the stands by adults,” one woman said. “There’s a winning is everything mentality from a lot of the parents and coaches.

“Kids should be able to relax and have fun playing the game. Winning isn’t all that important when you’re that young. We’ve had kids tell us that they would rather be on the field playing and losing a game than sitting on the bench watching his team win.”

Little League, youth softball and T-Ball coaches are volunteers who give of their time to help kids enjoy a sport. They should be commended for taking the time to do so.

Most of them recognize their purpose when working with kids ages 6-12: Teach them the game, educate them about sportsmanship and make sure everyone on the team gets on the field at some point in the game.

They should not have to take flack from parents upset because their kid isn’t getting any better — especially if that parent has never played catch with his or her son or daughter, or taken the child to a ballfield to toss the young player a few pitches.

Little League season is fast approaching and hopefully, parents are wise enough to keep it in its proper perspective.

Mothers Against Parent Bullying are looking to organize to make sure this is done.

It’s a group of parents with good intentions, to be sure.

It’s just a shame they see a need to unite.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle