Parents the positives....seeing huge smiles after new skills!

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With two kids in gymnastics (DD just turned 7 and DS soon to be 9) it often gets crazy with the meets all year, practices, packing snacks and so on--you guys get it, but seriously, the huge smile on my DD's face last night when she made her long hang kip for the first time makes it all worth it. She was so incredibly happy and proud, and two other girls made their glide kip the same day and they were all so supportive of each other--love it!

The funny part of the story is that DD was not actually doing kips at the time--as she explained, she was supposed to just be doing tap swings, and all of a sudden her body just popped up there. Haha. In other words, she was supposed to be swinging but she thought she might try one more time!
 

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