I finally quit. For months I have been in a slump, not getting skills, not making friends with teammates, teammates my age are incredibly rude, I only have friends there that are like 4 years younger. My parents have been begging me to go to practice for months btu I have been holding out saying I will enjoy meet season better. i Feel bad because my parents have already paid meet fee, coaches fee, leotard, warm ups, tank Leo, backpack, but I just couldn’t. They are supportive but aren’t going to just buy me skates and lessons because wanna do figure skating now. Which I understand, but I want to know how can I convince them to buy me skates and lessons. My mom offered open skate and skate rentals, but the skate rentals are hockey skates and i don’t want to get used to them. I am already tied up with trying to come up 700 dollars for a specific puppy I have my eye on, and I don’t know how to come up with another 70 for skates. How can I convince them to. Skates aren’t too bad, pretty much the price of an expensive tank Leo, about 60-80 dollars. I don’t want to look spoiled and demanding.