Natalia
Proud Parent
Do you ever regret letting your child choose gymnastics?
Or worse,letting them join the team?
If you had known what this sport entails,would you still take them to their first lesson?
I guess I´m suffrering a bit from mommy burnout.My kid is happy,the coaches are good,not touchy feely types,brutaly honest,which is good when parents can handle it. A bit of a disaster when parents are overly involved (full gyms are set up at home,when kids go on a 5 day school trip,the kids have to take weights in their bags so as not to loose conditioning).When the coach says "I really think Suzie should quit and take up another sport",the parents just double up on the home training to show the coach how wrong they are.
After the last meet I was helping out with the cleaning up,it was 8:30 pm on Sunday evening,our DDs had finished their meet at 12:30 the day before, when I get a call from one of the crazy moms.She starts talking with a really serious tone because she wishes to inform me :That my little suzie had a higher starting score on bars then her little Suzie,even though they had the same routines,something had to be done about this"A judge was standing next to me and was laughing at this crazy conversation.I told the mom I was putting her on the loudspeaker so that a judge could explain what might have happened.Turns out the scoring was actually correct.
Why should I care?Well here´s the rub,my kid is in the same class as these kids at school,they sleep over at our house and my kid will go to their house.It´s a constant immersion in a toxic environment.The irony is that the best girl in the group has the most uninvolved mom when it comes to gymnastics.This girl however has been bullied by the kids of the pusshy parents.
One girl took the clothes of the talented gymnast during practise,threw it on the floor and peed on it.This is an 8 year old child.
My kid in the mean time is developing some stinky attitude such as crying when she got 4th place at a meet,or rubbing her accompishments in the face of another gymnast...YUK:vomit:
The coaches are aware of the situation,the group is being split up in September,so it should get better...But man,geez what is it about this frigging sport?
Or worse,letting them join the team?
If you had known what this sport entails,would you still take them to their first lesson?
I guess I´m suffrering a bit from mommy burnout.My kid is happy,the coaches are good,not touchy feely types,brutaly honest,which is good when parents can handle it. A bit of a disaster when parents are overly involved (full gyms are set up at home,when kids go on a 5 day school trip,the kids have to take weights in their bags so as not to loose conditioning).When the coach says "I really think Suzie should quit and take up another sport",the parents just double up on the home training to show the coach how wrong they are.
After the last meet I was helping out with the cleaning up,it was 8:30 pm on Sunday evening,our DDs had finished their meet at 12:30 the day before, when I get a call from one of the crazy moms.She starts talking with a really serious tone because she wishes to inform me :That my little suzie had a higher starting score on bars then her little Suzie,even though they had the same routines,something had to be done about this"A judge was standing next to me and was laughing at this crazy conversation.I told the mom I was putting her on the loudspeaker so that a judge could explain what might have happened.Turns out the scoring was actually correct.
Why should I care?Well here´s the rub,my kid is in the same class as these kids at school,they sleep over at our house and my kid will go to their house.It´s a constant immersion in a toxic environment.The irony is that the best girl in the group has the most uninvolved mom when it comes to gymnastics.This girl however has been bullied by the kids of the pusshy parents.
One girl took the clothes of the talented gymnast during practise,threw it on the floor and peed on it.This is an 8 year old child.
My kid in the mean time is developing some stinky attitude such as crying when she got 4th place at a meet,or rubbing her accompishments in the face of another gymnast...YUK:vomit:
The coaches are aware of the situation,the group is being split up in September,so it should get better...But man,geez what is it about this frigging sport?