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ValleyGymMom
I need advice on helping my daughter learn to relax at competitions. She loves competing and absolutely lives for gymnastics. She is 15, a fun, cheerful, kind of goofy girl with a charming personality. However...at meets she becomes a different person. She is so serious. I think too serious. She is extremely hard on herself and makes the smallest mistake seem like a huge thing. For instance...at our season opener this past weekend she placed first on floor and third on vault. She landed two nice yurchenkos the very first time she ever competed them. All she could think of was how she crashed on her warm up for vault...not the actual vaults that she performed quite nicely. She missed a giant on bars but performed a beautiful straddle back, again the first time in competition. She simply can't let herself see the good things. She eventually gets over it but it upsets us so much to see the disappointment on her face. We give her encouragement but never push her. We let her know we are proud of her no matter what. Her coaches have told her to calm down as well. How can we help her to relax more?
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