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I'm not going to even phrase this as a question of whether this is okay or not, because I don't think anyone on earth would think this is okay.
Last spring her coach would occasionally have her 1 year old DD with her at the beginning of practice. She'd hold her or put her in something until someone came and got her. That didn't bother me. It was mostly during warm-up.
For the last few months she will bring her 1 year old child to every practice. Sometimes she will sit in her little playpen and not make a peep. Other days she will cry and she will get her out and hold her. She will be on bars holding her child in one hand and spotting with the other. Yesterday it was vault. This is not safe! It's not safe for our kids and it's not safe for hers. Yesterday the kid was just running around where the girls were doing bars.
I passed another mom on her way out last week as I was going in and she let off steam about how her DD wasn't being corrected on floor because the coach was too busy tending to her own child. To me this is just completely unacceptable. I really would understand if it was every once in awhile, but it's everyday.
I know I should speak up, but I feel like I'm already on the list of parents who speak up too much. I would completely say something if there were a little comment box where I didn't have to sign my name.
It just adds to how unprofessional I feel our coach is. How can she think this is okay? I don't bring my kids to work with me and let them run around. I'm paid to do a job and they would be a distraction. And how can the gym owner think that this is okay with parents? We pay money to have our kids coached. We already have 12 girls to one coach. So we get even less of her than we should. Next thing we know she'll be bringing her to meets.
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Heck I think I live on the list of parents who speak up too much and don't care I pay for 100% of the coaches attention and Her in there with her baby is not what I am paying for. I would talk to the owner today on that one and request that the baby be left at home or child care or what ever.
No way would this be safe or acceptable to me. You either coach my kid or you get someone else to do it. If you can't save her on a fall or correct her on the beam you aren't really coaching.
The safety of your dd and her teammates is at stake here. I'd be in the owners face about this. It's not safe for the team and it's not safe for her daughter, either. Why must she bring her? Doesn't she have a sitter? You wouldn't be going in there complaining about some petty little thing. It's more serious than that. I would voice your concerns now......and LOUD!!
We have this happen occasionally--more with 1 coach than the others. It is distracting to the girls and they have to watch that they don't run a little one over. One coach who usually does bring her little one pays someone to watch her and play with her while she's in the gym coaching.
No real solution unless you do speak up. You're right its a safety issue for everyone.
Do not worry about saying anything to the person in charge. That is a safety issue and it needs to be handled right away.! If this is happening everyday then you are not getting your money's worth from this coach.
We have a very close knit gym and when our head coach had her baby, she actually paid one of the parents to babysit the child at the gym. This parent sat in during all the practices and was at the gym anyway, so she would hold the baby out in the waiting room, feed her, change diaper etc. The head coach never had to stop to tend her child and gave the team 100% of her attention.
If you don't want to speak up because you don't want this coach thinking differently of you could you type up a letter and mail it to the gym. You don't have to put your name on it but you could put from a concerned parent or something like that. I'm pretty sure she checks the mail daily so she should get the letter. I know not the best way to handle it but hopefully it will get the job done.
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