- Jan 9, 2008
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How do you handle it when your daughter wants to try other activites besides gymnastics but does not want to give up gymnastics. Daughter will be training 4 days a week for aprox 13hours for level6 in fall. She has admitted she is getting bored with gym(she really does not like going in the summer). She signed up for volleyball which starts next week and she also wants to do cheer for her school I believe it is low key maybe 3 competitions a year. Volleyball is a short season only till October. So I am hoping it will some how work out but her dad says she should just concentrate on one thing and daughter asks me well if the practices are the same as gym could I just alternate. I think the level of comitment,the expense and the difficulty of gymnastics requires that you do not miss practice ecspecailly before meet season. At the same time I want her to be able to try other things and I want her to be happy. A lot of girls who have quit seem to have regrets and really miss it so I do not want to make her choose. I think she still really loves gym but wants to try other things and I quess going into her 4th year competing with only 2-3 weeks off a year could get tiresome for a kid. Do you just let her try out stuff but put gym 1st until she decides she is either done or wants to continue in gymnastics. It just seems like it would just be to difficult to take a break. Last year she did manage dance and track but dance was only 1 hour and the track coach was very lenient with her schedule plus her gymnastics coach was fine with that because they were both things that would help her gymnastics, unfortunately she no longer wants to dance.