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flippymonkeysmom
Ok - we all know some - but there is one at my dd's gym and my heart breaks for her daughter. Everyday at practice this girl cries and tells the other girls that she doesn't want to do gymnastics anymore but her mom is making her. Now she is having some fear issues trying to get skills for the next level. Every practice her mother sits in the lobby watching and critiquing every move she makes. The other day the girl was not doing something because she was afraid too - she was sobbing inconsolably. The mother actually went out onto the floor and started yelling at her to get over it and do it. The coaches have suggested to the mother that she stay back a level since she is not ready mentally to move up and of course the mother went ballistic, putting that much more pressure on the kid. I tried one day to say nicely that maybe if she didn't feel pressured she would get over the fear quicker. She snapped saying that is not how her daughter is. Anyway - this poor girl is crying every time I see and looks miserable. Now her mother just took her out of school to home school so she can spend more time in the gym. I can't even stand to be around this woman anymore - how does she not see what she is doing to her child 
