- Dec 24, 2025
- 7
- 3
First bronze meet in xcel coming up and feeling defeated rather than excited. DD has been doing gymnastics since 3 but this year she seems to have lost all her skills. She is starting to hunching over and chewing her fingers during practices. She doesn't want to quit but never wants to do anything at home to practice. She used to do handstands, back walk overs, cartwheels all the time. At practice I never see her getting any feedback and she has told me "we have to focus on xxx because it is her second year in bronze". Her own gym is entering people who are training silver 9 hours a week with an amazing coach (she had that coach last year in junior class) into bronze against them. So basically I am wondering how to make the experience postive for her when basically it seems like she is set up to do poorly? I don't care what the scores are and tried to talk to her about setting a goal for herself during the meet but she refuses. Should our goal just be going to the meet? Should I challenge her to do something funny at the meet like blow a kiss at the start of her beam or floor routine?
please help!!