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As some of you know, dd has been on a break from competitive gym for the past couple of months. She has been waffling on whether or not to go back to it.
Yesterday, on the way home from the mall, she says to me, "Mom, would you be upset if I wanted to try Cheerleading?"
I said, "ummm....okaayyyyy.....why the sudden change of heart?" She has vehemently denied ever wanting to try it before. During this 'break' of hers, I mentioned it once or twice, along w/ other sports, as an option to try if she decided not to go back to gym. She has flat-out refused to look into anything else other than possibly Tramp & Tumble.
So, after covertly dialing the number of the 'little men in white coats' to come and 'take away' my dd (so she can be treated for her teenage schizophrenic disorder, lol), we chatted about it. It seems that her older sis (non-gymmie, HS- age) has a friend who has done cheer in the past and is trying to get back into it. This friend has been to our house a few times, and has chatted w/ dd about it. As dd puts it "the only other cheerleader I knew was a bratty, girly-girl, so I didn't have a good opinion of cheer. But now that I know 'so and so', I have a better opinion of it. It sounds fun, because there is tumbling, which I love, and some music/dance, which I love"
I thought I'd share w/ you all so that you could get a good laugh out of my dd's wide behavioral swings!
On another note, as far as trying out the team where she is doing her rec tumbling: Apparently, while hubby & I were out Thurs. nite, dd received a call from her tumbling gym to the effect that the new HC would be there Fri. eve for a practice session. DD neglected to tell me about it until we were on our way to the mall on Fri. afternoon, & were obviously not going to make it back in time. She said, "I don't want to go today. I want a day off, and it's too long, I can't handle 1.5 hours of gymnastics". I was mad. Not so much that she disssed the practice. I said, "it sounds like you don't want to do gym then, let's move on." She said "but I still might want to try the team for a while" . To which I said, "well, here it is, and you are skipping it. This tells me you don't want to do it! I am tired of living in limbo w/ you on this, make a decision already, geez!"
IMO, if she didn't care about showing up to the first practice (granted, it is not really an 'official' practice yet, the HC has not quit her old gym yet, as she has girls going to regionals in a few weeks, she was just coming by to do a workout w/ her girls and any new ones who were interested), then dd obviously does not have her heart in this anymore. It's really fine w/ me, but I would like her to finalize her decision, and quit stringing-along myself, and the owners of this new gym!
She also says she may want to try the Tramp & Tumble team they are starting up at the gym. Her tumbling coaches have been trying to recruit her to it. Or, she says, "I might just rec tumble 2 days a week because I like that too". ARRGGHH!!!
Sorry for the loong post, I am just getting a bit weary of this child....thanks for listening!
Yesterday, on the way home from the mall, she says to me, "Mom, would you be upset if I wanted to try Cheerleading?"
I said, "ummm....okaayyyyy.....why the sudden change of heart?" She has vehemently denied ever wanting to try it before. During this 'break' of hers, I mentioned it once or twice, along w/ other sports, as an option to try if she decided not to go back to gym. She has flat-out refused to look into anything else other than possibly Tramp & Tumble.
So, after covertly dialing the number of the 'little men in white coats' to come and 'take away' my dd (so she can be treated for her teenage schizophrenic disorder, lol), we chatted about it. It seems that her older sis (non-gymmie, HS- age) has a friend who has done cheer in the past and is trying to get back into it. This friend has been to our house a few times, and has chatted w/ dd about it. As dd puts it "the only other cheerleader I knew was a bratty, girly-girl, so I didn't have a good opinion of cheer. But now that I know 'so and so', I have a better opinion of it. It sounds fun, because there is tumbling, which I love, and some music/dance, which I love"
I thought I'd share w/ you all so that you could get a good laugh out of my dd's wide behavioral swings!
On another note, as far as trying out the team where she is doing her rec tumbling: Apparently, while hubby & I were out Thurs. nite, dd received a call from her tumbling gym to the effect that the new HC would be there Fri. eve for a practice session. DD neglected to tell me about it until we were on our way to the mall on Fri. afternoon, & were obviously not going to make it back in time. She said, "I don't want to go today. I want a day off, and it's too long, I can't handle 1.5 hours of gymnastics". I was mad. Not so much that she disssed the practice. I said, "it sounds like you don't want to do gym then, let's move on." She said "but I still might want to try the team for a while" . To which I said, "well, here it is, and you are skipping it. This tells me you don't want to do it! I am tired of living in limbo w/ you on this, make a decision already, geez!"
IMO, if she didn't care about showing up to the first practice (granted, it is not really an 'official' practice yet, the HC has not quit her old gym yet, as she has girls going to regionals in a few weeks, she was just coming by to do a workout w/ her girls and any new ones who were interested), then dd obviously does not have her heart in this anymore. It's really fine w/ me, but I would like her to finalize her decision, and quit stringing-along myself, and the owners of this new gym!
She also says she may want to try the Tramp & Tumble team they are starting up at the gym. Her tumbling coaches have been trying to recruit her to it. Or, she says, "I might just rec tumble 2 days a week because I like that too". ARRGGHH!!!
Sorry for the loong post, I am just getting a bit weary of this child....thanks for listening!
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