Recent content by JadaBreeze

Thank you so much for your feedback, everyone. This has been so helpful! I'm meeting with my daughter's coach on Tuesday. Also, I was talking with my girl this morning and she revealed to me that she's been afraid of the back hip circle b/c she doesn't want to break her arm again. She broke her...

Question for moms of little gymnasts. Tonight my 5-year old’s pre-team coach said she’s too negative and says "I can't" a lot. That if my daughter can’t get past her mental block, she will have to leave the class. As her mom, I feel frustrated by this. My kid has only been in pre-team with this...

Thank you so much for the tidbits. SO helpful. We've already made some mistakes in letting her do a ton of backbends and kick overs but know better do better, right? We will refrain from having her do them at home from now on. Sometimes our girl gets so obsessed with trying to master skills that...

And since I have you, any do's, don't do's that can make your job as a preteam coach easier? I know all coaches/gyms are different but would love your thoughts. I haven't had the chance to ask our coach yet.

Very helpful responses, all. Thank you so much!

Hi all! Newbie here and I've already learned SO much. When did you start leaving your gymnast at gym? My 5-year old is on preteam and has 2-hour classes twice a week. Because my husband mostly travels for work, I work full time and we have no family in town, I'm the chauffeur. I don't know many...