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Hi all. My name is Amber. My daughter started gymnastics last summer at the age of 4.. after a year of begging my to sign her up. She is now 5. She started out taking 1 hour preschool class every week. Then after a couple months wanted to go more so I signed her up for 2 preschool classes per week. Last month they gave her the invitation to join Pre-team... which is 2-4 hours per week. She currently does 1 2 hour class and is having the time of her life. Last night her coach offered her more time and really wants to work with her more. Says she has the natural ability and would love to work with her more. And there was an opening for her to take more hours. Which could be 1-3 hours long. And would love her to take the 3 hour long class and see how she does. So this would increase it to 5 hours a week. And also offered her to take a special class over the summer months training 9 hours a week that would start a more extensive training for the US team. Her coach is amazing, and my daughter loves her. All she does around the house is flip and tumble and "choreograph" her own floor routines while watching Nastia Liukin over and over LOL. So I guess my questions are... is this too much? how do I handle my other children? My husbands work hours make it hard for him to watch the other kids which there are 5 altogether... my stepdaughter, then our 4 kids. My stepdaughter also does beginners gymnastics she is almost 9. She is very upset that she isnt going anywhere with it and not getting moved up. Any suggestions on how to deal with that?
I love that my daughter is doing so well. I always wanted to do gymnastics as a kid but my parents didnt have the money. I don't ever want to push my dream on to my daughter. I always want this to be "her" dream. So any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. I know its going to be a long ride and hopefully a happy one. But as my other children get older... they are 3, 20 months, and 3 months old... how will I make sure they are all able to do whatever activity they want. Money wise and time wise. How do I handle all this. I should also mention we live 40 minutes from the gym and my daughter starts Kindergarten this fall.
Sorry for going on and on and jumping all over the place. But any advice from parents in similiar situations and such would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening to me ramble.
I love that my daughter is doing so well. I always wanted to do gymnastics as a kid but my parents didnt have the money. I don't ever want to push my dream on to my daughter. I always want this to be "her" dream. So any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. I know its going to be a long ride and hopefully a happy one. But as my other children get older... they are 3, 20 months, and 3 months old... how will I make sure they are all able to do whatever activity they want. Money wise and time wise. How do I handle all this. I should also mention we live 40 minutes from the gym and my daughter starts Kindergarten this fall.
Sorry for going on and on and jumping all over the place. But any advice from parents in similiar situations and such would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening to me ramble.