siblings

Just curious, as I know I'll have to ask the head teacher but just wondering. And doing my research as usual :lol: DD's new sport is likely to involve more away meets. She has a meet coming up where she really needs the Friday off school as competition training is on the Friday afternoon...

How do you deal with issues surrounding siblings in gymnastics? My eldest dd was asked to join our gym club disability gymnastics development program after a quick assessment - she has only been taking trampoline lessons for the past 5 weeks. My younger dd has been doing recreational gymnastics...

ChalkBucket has become the premier gymnastics community for parents...gymnasts...and coaches. The one group that we have really missed has been the "fans". In thinking long and hard about how to get more fans into the site...we figured out that ChalkBucket really isn't a fan site. It is a...

As our gymmie's practice hours escalate, I'm concerned about the impact on our other kids. In some ways we've found it good; gymmie daughter is a extrovert with ADD and loves center stage and when she is at practice, our more reserved kids come out of their shells a bit. I worry though...

For any gymnasts with younger siblings did you teach them any tumbling skills themselves? If so what skills?

I would love any opinions or advice on this. I am hopefully not the only one who deals with this. My DD and DS are 20 months apart and are both in gymnastics. DS competed level 4 last year and is competing level 5 this year (finishing this week). DD will attempt to compete level 4 in the...

My oldest is working through level four. Just needs a few skills to move to five. Her younger sister just finished a very successful string of meets as a level 3. Placing in the top two at each meet. She has all of her level four skills. Her coaches made the decision to move up the three level...

I'm thinking about letting my 7 year old got to the IGC camp in Pa on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. But I'm having trouble finding ideas for what to do with my 5 year old while my daughter is in the camp for the day. There's lots of summer based ideas, but what can you do there in the...

10 years ago tomorrow I was granted the adoption of little bits older sister. What a day! She comes to practices, all meets and is very very proud of her little sister. I worked on a tribute to her....had to do it in phases but it's on youtube. Love her for making me a mom, being a GREAT kid...

I would like to run big sister little sister gymnasts at our club this year. The numbers seem to work this year. I wanted to know if any of you have done this before and how it went for you? How did you pick girls or did you match them up?? Whhat types of things did they do for each other...

My girls aren't that far apart in age. I love the class and coach that the elder one has, and was hoping her little sister will be invited into that class maybe after her birthday (she's still in kindy gym but big sister's invitation-only class in theory allows entry from age 4). No offer has...

Last Saturday my seven year old sister went to her second competition.The 2010 'Novice Championships' hosted by the London Gymnastics Federation. There were 26 girls there and one other girl competing from her gym because there were lots of girls that the coaches didn't think were ready. General...

What is the sibling team discount at your gym? I just found out my son's gym is only 10% off the cheaper tuition inside the team program. I thought it might be more.

Has anyone either read the book by Jodi Picoult or seen this movie? What a tear-jerker!!! I read the book first and thought it was sad, thought-provoking, funny and amazing all at the same time. I liked the movie as well--such great acting and couldn't get through it without crying at least half...

Hi! My little sister (I should say younger sister) had the flu 3 weeks ago and she still has not recovered yet. I mean she is not sick but she is always tired and she can't train hard. Is this normal to be tired for so long? I was sick for 3 days and then it was over. She does not want to...

I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question/problem... so Bog if you need to move it - do so :-) My Daugters Beetle is 14 - 8th grade. Level 8 training Level 9. Bug a 12 year old competitive dancer in 6th Grade. They go to the same middle school. My delimma, has to do with...

Here is a video of Julian's first Flag Football game. His team is wearing white jerseys and he is #20. He had so much fun!!! And the weather couldn't have been better...Enjoy!!! YouTube - Julian i9 Sports Flag Football 9/19/09

Hi, I'm a first time poster, so maybe I should introduce myself before soliciting advice. My name is Marie and I am the mother of two wonderful daughters. My eldest, Sarah, is 17 and my younger daughter, Jen, is 15. My problem kind of surrounds my two daughters. Jen has always been extremely...

It's been about 2 months since that meet when Kelsey had the meltdown after Little Monkey did really well and the entire gym (meet director included) made a huge fuss over her and her scores. Well, at USAIGC States, I did not require Kelsey to sit thru LM's session. I let her run off with some...

We had our 1st USAIGC meet last night. The session before us ran late, so we didn't get in on time and first event didn't start till after 7pm. Plus we had 24 girls entered, 20 competing with 2 coaches...which should have been fine except they were trying to rush things along and we had half...