I posted here previously about daughter being done with gymnastics and updated everybody how daughter was having so much fun and adjusting really well. She swam all summer competing with swim club swim team and was starting to get good showed alot of potential. She also was doing dance and recently started irish dance and really liked it. She was actually was asked to do fill in one of the dances for the next level class. So eventhough I knew she was done with gymnastics I though it was great that she was having fun with other things. So now along comes cheerleading sign ups for her school and she wants to do it. One of the old gym friends (most of them are anti-cheerleading tells me you should let her ), so knowing she wants to I agree except that she will not be able to do swim team for her school. I want to be happy for her but part of me just feels like that she just wants to hang with her friends. Last year she really hated doing floor and her heels were severly hurting her from severs disease. She was really looking forward to winter swimming but she just seems like all she cares about is trying cheerleading. I feel like if I do not let her try than she will never get it out of her system. I just wish I could be more excited about it but the cheer does not seem as beautiful as gymnastics was. I do feel bad because I feel like I am that unsupportive parent and I wonder why she choose cheerleading over swim team thinking it was for the wrong reasons. I am looking forward to her performances in irish dance and her regular dance recital which I really enjoy. Maybe I am just of the generation where the cheerleaders were the popular girls. Please help any other gym moms whose daughter switched to cheerleading tell me about the postives and get me excited about the sport!