Thanks in advance for all of the replies that may come. I found this site while sitting at the gym, but didn’t decide to register and post till I was at work tonight.
When my son was around 3 put him into a tumbling class in the hopes to improve his balance and to get out some of his over amount of energy. We never expected him to enjoy it like he did, nor did we expect him to excel like he has. He turned 5 in April and as a treat this summer we enrolled him in a 3-day 1-week "camp" for kids his age and after the first day of the camp the boys completion coach was on him to join the team. After talking it over with my wife we decided to go for it, although he was only 5 and can't compete till he is 6.
That brings me to our problem; there are days he doesn't want to go. Once he gets there he has an awesome time, is improving more then we could ever have imagined, and is doing things he only dreamed about when he was in the "lil kid gym" (as he calls it). We have had crying fits because he doesn’t want to do something that they are doing in practice, yet 2 practices before he did it just fine and was doing it through the house the next day. It’s getting better, but we are at a loss as to what to do. He LOVES it when he is there, but the problem we get into is getting him there. As parents, we don't want to force him into it because then he will resent it...but at the same time we don’t want to teach him to give up when it is harder then he wants or isn’t exactly what he wants to do.
When my son was around 3 put him into a tumbling class in the hopes to improve his balance and to get out some of his over amount of energy. We never expected him to enjoy it like he did, nor did we expect him to excel like he has. He turned 5 in April and as a treat this summer we enrolled him in a 3-day 1-week "camp" for kids his age and after the first day of the camp the boys completion coach was on him to join the team. After talking it over with my wife we decided to go for it, although he was only 5 and can't compete till he is 6.
That brings me to our problem; there are days he doesn't want to go. Once he gets there he has an awesome time, is improving more then we could ever have imagined, and is doing things he only dreamed about when he was in the "lil kid gym" (as he calls it). We have had crying fits because he doesn’t want to do something that they are doing in practice, yet 2 practices before he did it just fine and was doing it through the house the next day. It’s getting better, but we are at a loss as to what to do. He LOVES it when he is there, but the problem we get into is getting him there. As parents, we don't want to force him into it because then he will resent it...but at the same time we don’t want to teach him to give up when it is harder then he wants or isn’t exactly what he wants to do.