Poor daughter just got back from camp. She is so excited. I have heard all the tales of camp. Today she wanted to share with her Nana and Aunt. We went swimming with them. She brought her radio and IPOD to show them the camp dance she learned. She started to do it, and Nana said I don't want to hear anything about it, we are here to relax. She was crushed and of course didn't say anything while we were there-only on the car ride home. They wouldn't listen to any of it.
They feel gymnastics is the reason for all things bad. Em is shy-they say because she spends too much time at gymnastics. Actually gym has brought her out of her shyness. She doesn't have a large group of friends at school. Actually she has a good group of friends who are gym friends and some school friends. The school friends are into boys and grown up stuff. We encourage the gym friends as we feel the school friends are fast as a whole. She loves to wear gym type clothes-shorts and tanks or sweat pants in the winter. It is what she likes. Every evil in the world is blamed on gym. They are not supportive of her at all.
Honestly it gets on my nerves. They don't want to listen to her when she explains herself. She told me the other day that she wished they understood. She said that if they had the opportunity to do what they love everyday wouldn't they decide to do it too. I thought that was a great way for her to put it. She will never say it to them as she is a people pleaser.
They feel gymnastics is the reason for all things bad. Em is shy-they say because she spends too much time at gymnastics. Actually gym has brought her out of her shyness. She doesn't have a large group of friends at school. Actually she has a good group of friends who are gym friends and some school friends. The school friends are into boys and grown up stuff. We encourage the gym friends as we feel the school friends are fast as a whole. She loves to wear gym type clothes-shorts and tanks or sweat pants in the winter. It is what she likes. Every evil in the world is blamed on gym. They are not supportive of her at all.
Honestly it gets on my nerves. They don't want to listen to her when she explains herself. She told me the other day that she wished they understood. She said that if they had the opportunity to do what they love everyday wouldn't they decide to do it too. I thought that was a great way for her to put it. She will never say it to them as she is a people pleaser.