- Nov 12, 2023
- 17
- 3
I’ve gained a new group of girls that moved up off of our preteam group. These girls are training USAG 2/3 skills. I’ve been with them for a week and a half now.
It’s been a few years since I’ve gotten girls from preteam and I’m not sure if it was the coaching style of the preteam coach, or maybe just change of schedule/coaching style… but the whole group is whiny. Like throwing themselves to the ground whiny when something is even a tiny bit more challenging (which, given the change from preteam to team, it should be). Like sitting down on the beam when they just don’t feel like doing something anymore, or laying mid floor rolling around during shaping exercises.
Any ideas on how to handle the whining to minimize it? They are around 6-7 years old and once one starts it trickles down. I’ve been taking a lot of time out of practice to individually deal with each child’s complaints, but that’s really not effective. And like I said it trickles down, so ignoring it doesn’t help because they’ll all be complaining.
Nothing they are doing is overly challenging yet. I’m still trying to asses their strengths and weaknesses, so we’ve been focusing on basic. I also don’t want them sitting, I generally try to make stations for them to follow but, despite being able to do things independently, they seem to lay at a station and whine until I give them each individual attention.
It’s been a few years since I’ve gotten girls from preteam and I’m not sure if it was the coaching style of the preteam coach, or maybe just change of schedule/coaching style… but the whole group is whiny. Like throwing themselves to the ground whiny when something is even a tiny bit more challenging (which, given the change from preteam to team, it should be). Like sitting down on the beam when they just don’t feel like doing something anymore, or laying mid floor rolling around during shaping exercises.
Any ideas on how to handle the whining to minimize it? They are around 6-7 years old and once one starts it trickles down. I’ve been taking a lot of time out of practice to individually deal with each child’s complaints, but that’s really not effective. And like I said it trickles down, so ignoring it doesn’t help because they’ll all be complaining.
Nothing they are doing is overly challenging yet. I’m still trying to asses their strengths and weaknesses, so we’ve been focusing on basic. I also don’t want them sitting, I generally try to make stations for them to follow but, despite being able to do things independently, they seem to lay at a station and whine until I give them each individual attention.
