- Jan 1, 2010
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My girls are 10 and 6. They understand the actual score. Even Ellie-kindergartener-understands the percents. Great lesson learned from meets. Here is where it gets hard. Emma got a 9.422 on bars. Placed third. Ellie got a 9.4 on bars. Placed second. Another girl got a 9.2 on bars. Placed second. El is at a lower level. She is in the youngest age group in her level. Bars is her strong area. Usually places here. Her all-around score was 35.8something. Good enough for third all-around. Other girl is in Em's level. She was in the oldest age group. Her all around was 36.995. She placed 4th all around. Em's is in the 10 year old age group. Her overall score was 36.444. She placed seventh in her age group. All scores were great. I understand about the distribution of scores and the rankings etc. How do I explain it to Em and El? Em was telling me she felt bad about her scores and felt like she did bad. I kept telling her that was awesome scores. She was upset she didn't do better AA. How do others handle this?
Megan
Megan