- Apr 15, 2022
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Hello! My son is 7 and has been doing gymnastics for about a year. He LOVES gymnastics and has the strength for it. He is currently in the beginner class for rec gymnastics, but he really wants to move up and his coach talked to us about a month ago, saying he was keeping his eye on our kiddo to potentially move him into pre-team because he can do all of the skills they are working on. The problem is that our son get SUPER distracted during class. He's always playing with the edge of the mat or just completely not paying attention to something being demonstrated. It seems to be worse when there are other distracted boys in the group, they feed off of each other. We've talked to him about it, saying it's great to have fun but he needs to pay attention when his coach is talking or demonstrating just like he would to his teachers in school. He listens and understands, but it all goes out the window in class. Any ideas to help him focus a bit better? I totally get that he's 7 and a boy, but he wants to move up so bad and his coach tells him he still gets too distracted.