attitude

My daughter is 11. She was in Xcel Silver last year and did amazing (high 37-38 AA thru regionals) considering her gym offered only 6 hours a week practice. Her best friends were in the gym. They were all positive and loving vibes. She was working on platinum level skills. Staffing issues caused...

Hello all, I have been a lurker on chalkbucket for a long time, however I just recently saw something that made my jaw drop and want to post it somewhere! It’s a gymnastics coach’s instagram, where she posts videos of her kids crying and giving “attitude”. What are y’all’s thoughts? I know my...

Please tell me I'm not alone. I can't do my son's attitude anymore. He thinks he's hot stuff and chooses not to listen. I am to the point of pulling him out of gym. He thinks he doesn't have to listen and spends half the night jumping in the pit. I used to LOVE watching him and now it just makes...

Hello! I am looking for some advice. We are struggling with our son who is 9 and his attitude at the gym. He is there up to 16 hours a week for practice. He is very talented and if he could actually focus he would be even better. Problem is he - lately he has been rude to his coaches. When...

Today I went to pick up my DD from practice and the coach pulled me aside to tell me that she had a really bad practice. She was frustrated and tearful most of the practice, and when the coach tried to talk to her she turned her back and walked away. The head coach then stepped in and tried to...

I've heard coaches speak of "presention" to get a better score. My confusion is they speak of things such as chin up, shoulders down, having a confident attitude. But I see nowhere, where this is part of deductions. Soooo, how does this work? Are judges just more forgiving of other things if a...

New to this, but would love some ideas/advice! We haven't hit a full "block" yet, but my Level 5 DD is psyching herself out before practice and meets. She fixates on one thing she's having a hard time with and it keeps her from concentrating on her other skills and really hurts her confidence...

Has anyone else noticed that they/or DD has a different attitude than other girls? Have you noticed that gymnasts are harder on themselves, not only in the gym but in daily activities as well? Girls on my track team aren't fazed when they do poorly (most of the girls, obviously there are...

I posted in another thread about my daughter's continued pain in her foot, and she will have an MRI in the morning to try to get to the bottom of it once and for all. But I noticed yesterday that her coaches seem to be losing patience with her inability to do anything more than conditioning...

Finally convinced DDs coach to let her add onto the 6 hrs that gold trains- I was told to pick from the gold practice schedule. We went with an extra two hour practice on Tuesdays (gold practices are all two hours). It's billed as a gold practice (DD practices with the platinum girls), but when...

My daughter is an 11 year old who just moved to optionals at the beginning of the summer. She will compete level 7 in the spring. My daughter has always been a little hard to figure out. She is very sweet but also very touchy. She is very hard on herself and gets frustrated at herself quite...

im trainning elite in usa. i tend to get upset when stuff doesnt go right, or like when stuff is scary(like double doubles) anyway my coach says i have a bad attitude and that it looks like i dont want to train and that i never have fun, but im just not that type of happy expressive person. im...

This is embarrassing to talk about and I actually started typing up a post once before then chickened out. I'm gonna try again though. My daughter (age 5) has an attitude problem. It's not all the time and does seem to be worse on days where she's eaten too much sugar or hasn't gotten enough...

I'm posting this here rather than a general parenting forum because you guys understand high commitment activities. DD 7.5 does dance also among many other activities and only does two days a week in the gym. (She is home schooled and above age grade so she is well rested, sleeps until she...

Truthfully, the reason I started off surfing the net - and landed in this fab forum - is because I was seeking info on how gymnastics progression all works nowadays. My 5 yo DD had been attending a pre-school 'kindergym' class this year and loves it. Having been a gymnast myself, I assumed this...

Well 8 year old DD came home last night all negative about her new coach. She had this coach about 4 times before and hasn't complained much about him. The only thing she said about him was that he was tough. Tonight her carpool was back on for the first time since the new coach came and the...