- Dec 13, 2012
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I love the boiling frog and kool-aid analogies! Cheers!!! (-:
I often think of this phenomenon as the "slippery slope". (especially when talking with the new team parents- I can see their "innocence"- and how I have just a little bit less than they do, and how I have much more innocence than the veteran gym parents do) There is no way I would have accepted the gymnastics life lock, stock and barrel at the very beginning. It's the gradual dropping into the warm hot tub that got us into the "boiling water" over time.
We love the sport, but from time to time, I too wonder about how the time, money, and "scary" skills became "normal" reality. Wah!
I often think of this phenomenon as the "slippery slope". (especially when talking with the new team parents- I can see their "innocence"- and how I have just a little bit less than they do, and how I have much more innocence than the veteran gym parents do) There is no way I would have accepted the gymnastics life lock, stock and barrel at the very beginning. It's the gradual dropping into the warm hot tub that got us into the "boiling water" over time.
We love the sport, but from time to time, I too wonder about how the time, money, and "scary" skills became "normal" reality. Wah!
