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My younger team gymnast has been with his coach since he was 4 years old. He has always had him in his life, as far as he remembers, and he thinks of his coach as a fixture in his life. I have started my kids working with another coach for private lessons (with the boys' coach's blessing), and my 7 year old treats this new coach so different. He backs off skills, argues with him, and doesn't try very hard. I've noticed this for a few weeks, but thought my son was just tired due to the time of day this lesson takes place. However, today his boys' team coach walked over during a private lesson with this other coach and told my son to throw the skill in which my son had been backing off over and over, and my son did it 3 times perfectly with his main coach standing there. The team coach walked away and my son started backing off again. What?
So I talked to the team coach about this, saying that it's obvious that my son has obvious trust and respect for him, and how he doesn't react the same with the other coaches. This team coach is fairly young and he started saying how he knows, but he isn't sure why, since he isn't a dad or a brother or anything like that. I said, you are a coach - a respected authority figure. I'm not sure why the team coach doesn't seem to wrap his mind around his importance and status in certain childrens' lives as a coach.
The funny thing is that we have thought about leaving to another gym eventually, for various reasons, but now I think it might be a difficult prospect my for younger son. Hmmn...
So I talked to the team coach about this, saying that it's obvious that my son has obvious trust and respect for him, and how he doesn't react the same with the other coaches. This team coach is fairly young and he started saying how he knows, but he isn't sure why, since he isn't a dad or a brother or anything like that. I said, you are a coach - a respected authority figure. I'm not sure why the team coach doesn't seem to wrap his mind around his importance and status in certain childrens' lives as a coach.
The funny thing is that we have thought about leaving to another gym eventually, for various reasons, but now I think it might be a difficult prospect my for younger son. Hmmn...