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Can anyone tell me when the new USAG routines take effect? Is it Fall 2020 or 2021?

It's so helpful to hear others' experiences and see more perspectives too!

Multiple levels train together, but because of how they are grouped, my daughter is on the older/more advanced end of her group. She usually does best when she's the youngest - she'll push through the fear better when she's working to keep up with the older girls. I'm not in a hurry for her to...

Thank you all so much! All of this was so encouraging. Some of you described my daughter perfectly - takes forever to get the skill, but then when she gets it, it's solid. Unfortunately there aren't many like her on the team, so all she sees is kids "getting" skills, and she's not. I talked with...

I just realized I didn't really articulate my question very well. I guess I'm looking to hear stories of kids who may have had similar personalities or fear issues. It's hard to know at the moment whether she's growing and stretching as a result of facing her fears, or whether it's doing more...

My daughter (level 2) is cautious. She thinks through everything before she does it, and doesn't take many uncalculated risks. She loves gymnastics and has done well until recently, pushing through her fears bit by bit. It stretches her, and I usually think that's a good thing. Lately, we've had...

I agree about not using the word "Behind." That was a poor choice of words on my part. Although, I wasn't really referring to HER being behind, but rather just that the rest of the group seems to have moved on, and there are skills she doesn't have that no longer get any practice time, because...

I'm looking to hear other people's experiences. My daughter is a deep-thinker, very intelligent - but slow to get skills. She seems to need to mentally understand the skill before she can make her body do it. She'll be the last to get a skill, but the first to make the skill look pretty. The...

Good ideas! She did a couple of short Fitness Blender workouts, and was thrilled when I showed them to her. I think she'd really like the furniture mover/paper plate idea too. We have some sturdy paper plates that would work well. I might suggest that tomorrow. Thanks for the help!

Snow day, so no gymnastics and we are inside. My daughter cheered up a bit when I said I'd at least find a workout for her to do. Can anyone recommend a good workout video for young gymnasts? Just something to keep her active (yet safe) during a long day indoors.

Thanks, everyone, for your insight and help! My daughter did amazing. My proudest moment was hearing her cheer on her teammates, honestly. :) That was awesome. She also scored higher than she thought she would on everything. In the excitement of awards, I don't think she really heard her...

Thank you! This is exactly what I'm looking for! :) I totally get what others have said about not giving this info to my daughter, and didn't plan to... I just want to have some idea what's going on. :)

Sorry, the first "good advice" part at the top of my previous post ended up in the wrong spot. :) I appreciate everything that has been said here. I've certainly been redirecting her focus away from scores and towards just doing her personal best and having fun with the experience. I just wanted...

Good advice, and similar to what I've been telling her! :) I I'm certainly not worried about scores. In fact, I haven't talked to her about scores or deductions, and don't plan to. But somehow, my 6 year old DOES know about them, and has set goals for herself (which she just told me about a...

My very competitive daughter is facing her very first meet (usag level 1). Because of her competitive nature, we have discussed having fun and working to do her personal best - not focusing on who got what score. She seems to get it, but she's also really worried about her beam score, in...

I guess I should've clarified - my hypothetical response/consequence was assuming that the coach is dealing with the behavior, but child was not responding to the coach's correction.....thereby causing disruption to the class as a whole. That is really the only scenario where I've felt I needed...

You've gotten lots of good advice here, but I figured I'd chime in with what I know would work for my kids. Very simply - you goof off in practice, you will be missing the next one. Nothing huge like moving back to rec....kids this age seem to live in the moment too much for that type of...

When I was a teenager, eating really early in the morning made me feel extremely queasy. For several years I just ate plain buttered toast. Other things that worked: cold leftover pizza, fruit crisp dessert, sausage, plain oatmeal with chocolate chips on top, (no milk or sugar.) Not very...

That's the part that baffles me.........she is mature enough to tell me that she struggles in large groups of friends, but that's still her idea of the best birthday party. I personally know she'd have more fun with just a couple friends, but I think it's one of those things she'll have to...