Hi there,
I wrote a post a few days ago. If you haven't seen it, here's a quick gist:
DD just started gymnastic classes at 12. She's wanted to join a gymnastics team, since 2019. But then, covid. When it got better, I just didn't have the time to let her join because a teen starting high school and taking care of an 8 year old is a little hard. But we moved to another state, so I signed her up for a class beginners class, which is now on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Apparently, in a class, the coach raised his voice pretty loudly at her. "I know you've been practicing at home. You're ruining your skills. You're throwing your head back in your tuck."
DD said that she just nodded and tried again.
Then when a girl around her age tried her tuck, he said "Good, but you're throwing your head back. Try again," She says that her coach always congratulates, smiles and claps for others, but when it comes to her it's as if the sunny weather was suddenly replaced with thunder and lightning. Now, my DD is pretty sensitive. I think she let his words get in her head, because she cries when she talks about it. This is the only gym with competitive gymnastics around us, so there's not really a choice to move. DD really, really wants to have fun and do competitive, but I couldn't see her cry anymore. There was a similar, but minor situation like this the class before.
The people who responded mostly told me to watch the class, so I did. They allow us to go to this room that's right next to their front desk without really asking.
DD was trying to catch the higher bar but she kept falling.
She was slapped.
I am absolutely so disappointed and just angry right now and I know that I'm probably going to later on regret posting this on a website that doesn't really deal with this kind of stuff and I apologize.
I walked through the door (in the watch room there's a door that leads to the beam) and took her out of the classroom. I know that some other parents did the same or yelled at the coach.
She knows that there's no more gyms around us and she says she wants to stay at the gym! I was aghast- did she realized she was just slapped?? All I know is that I'm 100% contacting law enforcement.
Here are my questions:
-Any similar situations? How did you deal with it?
-What do I tell DD? I know that if I try to put some common sense into her I'll just end up making her stressed. I need to cool off.
-Is there a way to delete posts when I knock common sense into myself and realize I shouldn't have posted this?
Thanks.
I wrote a post a few days ago. If you haven't seen it, here's a quick gist:
DD just started gymnastic classes at 12. She's wanted to join a gymnastics team, since 2019. But then, covid. When it got better, I just didn't have the time to let her join because a teen starting high school and taking care of an 8 year old is a little hard. But we moved to another state, so I signed her up for a class beginners class, which is now on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Apparently, in a class, the coach raised his voice pretty loudly at her. "I know you've been practicing at home. You're ruining your skills. You're throwing your head back in your tuck."
DD said that she just nodded and tried again.
Then when a girl around her age tried her tuck, he said "Good, but you're throwing your head back. Try again," She says that her coach always congratulates, smiles and claps for others, but when it comes to her it's as if the sunny weather was suddenly replaced with thunder and lightning. Now, my DD is pretty sensitive. I think she let his words get in her head, because she cries when she talks about it. This is the only gym with competitive gymnastics around us, so there's not really a choice to move. DD really, really wants to have fun and do competitive, but I couldn't see her cry anymore. There was a similar, but minor situation like this the class before.
The people who responded mostly told me to watch the class, so I did. They allow us to go to this room that's right next to their front desk without really asking.
DD was trying to catch the higher bar but she kept falling.
She was slapped.
I am absolutely so disappointed and just angry right now and I know that I'm probably going to later on regret posting this on a website that doesn't really deal with this kind of stuff and I apologize.
I walked through the door (in the watch room there's a door that leads to the beam) and took her out of the classroom. I know that some other parents did the same or yelled at the coach.
She knows that there's no more gyms around us and she says she wants to stay at the gym! I was aghast- did she realized she was just slapped?? All I know is that I'm 100% contacting law enforcement.
Here are my questions:
-Any similar situations? How did you deal with it?
-What do I tell DD? I know that if I try to put some common sense into her I'll just end up making her stressed. I need to cool off.
-Is there a way to delete posts when I knock common sense into myself and realize I shouldn't have posted this?
Thanks.