So it has been a month since daughter has been out of the gym. I am not sure that she is adjusting. She was told by her ortho doctor to not do anything for 3 weeks let her heels rest and she is wearing arm splints on her wrist. Well that is not working out to well. She is taking off the wrist splints frequently now I can see why the doctor put a cast on her arm last year when she had wrist pain. She claims that the pain has not really improved since she stopped tumbling.
She signed her self up for a summer basketball league at her school practice started last week. So knowing that she probally should not be doing this and seeing how unhappy she has been I was a bad parent and let her go thinking only a couple hours of physical activity would not further harm her wrists and not excercabate the heel pain. They had sign ups in school and daughter really wanted to try it. Well I do not think it has helped with the pain. LOL. I also caught daughter doing cartwheels and hand stands when she thought I was not looking.
I personally think she really misses gym but will not admit it. She took all her trophies and hid them in a ottamen in her room claiming she does not want to look at them. She will not really talk to her gym friends. She brought a poster home from school that she drew of a balance beam hide that too and said I do not want to like gym anymore.
When I tried to talk to her and tell her if she changes her mind at the end of the summer that the head coach would willing take her back, her head coach told her this at the end of the year banquet. The only thing I can get out of her is that she hates going everyday in the summer and that she is mad at one of her former coaches the one she really liked. I did tell her I understand and I know it is alot of pressure doing USAG team and it is not an easy sport.
I did bring up that in the fall the Y has a team they do not do USAG and they do not practice intensely in the summer would she be interested. She would still be able to do other sports. She seemed to like that idea but does not bring it up unless I do. She also mentioned doing classes they have tumbling where alot of former teammates do at her old gym for 1 hour1x a week. Because she did mention she would like to do a class and maybe not compete. But when she was in the gym her true love was beam and bars not tumbling and she would not be able to do those events in her old gym at this class. So my question do I just let things go until she asks to do it, do I take her to the Y to explore a possiblity of doing their team in the fall or do I sign her up for tumbling in the fall. I am not sure if she just needs more time but I get this naggy feeling that she really misses gymnastics but it was just the combination of the heel wrist pain, the pressure of the coaching and having a rough year as a new level 6.
We are going to the orthopedic doctor next week for followup on her wrists and heels and she starts swim team next week. She is not showing me any of the ethususiam that she used to have for gym but I quess I will see.
She signed her self up for a summer basketball league at her school practice started last week. So knowing that she probally should not be doing this and seeing how unhappy she has been I was a bad parent and let her go thinking only a couple hours of physical activity would not further harm her wrists and not excercabate the heel pain. They had sign ups in school and daughter really wanted to try it. Well I do not think it has helped with the pain. LOL. I also caught daughter doing cartwheels and hand stands when she thought I was not looking.
I personally think she really misses gym but will not admit it. She took all her trophies and hid them in a ottamen in her room claiming she does not want to look at them. She will not really talk to her gym friends. She brought a poster home from school that she drew of a balance beam hide that too and said I do not want to like gym anymore.
When I tried to talk to her and tell her if she changes her mind at the end of the summer that the head coach would willing take her back, her head coach told her this at the end of the year banquet. The only thing I can get out of her is that she hates going everyday in the summer and that she is mad at one of her former coaches the one she really liked. I did tell her I understand and I know it is alot of pressure doing USAG team and it is not an easy sport.
I did bring up that in the fall the Y has a team they do not do USAG and they do not practice intensely in the summer would she be interested. She would still be able to do other sports. She seemed to like that idea but does not bring it up unless I do. She also mentioned doing classes they have tumbling where alot of former teammates do at her old gym for 1 hour1x a week. Because she did mention she would like to do a class and maybe not compete. But when she was in the gym her true love was beam and bars not tumbling and she would not be able to do those events in her old gym at this class. So my question do I just let things go until she asks to do it, do I take her to the Y to explore a possiblity of doing their team in the fall or do I sign her up for tumbling in the fall. I am not sure if she just needs more time but I get this naggy feeling that she really misses gymnastics but it was just the combination of the heel wrist pain, the pressure of the coaching and having a rough year as a new level 6.
We are going to the orthopedic doctor next week for followup on her wrists and heels and she starts swim team next week. She is not showing me any of the ethususiam that she used to have for gym but I quess I will see.