veganmami
Proud Parent
So my DD is a L4 this year and had a very successful year on L3. At her last USAG meet she placed 1st AA. She picks up things really quickly and has almost all of her L4 skills for the year on all apparatuses. I would love to see her possibly go up to L5 because she also has a lot of those skills as well. Now, I'm not one to push the coaches, but I'm very frustrated.....
A new girl just joined the team from another gym and she is the same age as my daughter (7) and did L3 where she was last year. She has all of her skills for L4. Her mother complained to the coaches that she was "bored" with L4 so they moved her up and she is trying L5! I don't see her as being any more mature or better than my daughter, but I would like to know why they allowed her to move up to 5. My dd has more of the L5 skills than she does. I feel like the coaches are by-passing my daughter because she's a guaranteed paycheck and this new girl could always go back to her other gym if her mom is not happy. I also feel like going to L5 would push my DD a little harder because she would be with the older girls. Right now, the gym groups l3 and l4 together, so a lot of the time the newer girls slow down the older girls and there is definitely less focus.
Another thing that frustrates me is that last year, the L4's worked exclusivley with one coach. She is an AWESOME coach and I was looking forward to her working with my DD this year. Last year as a L3 my daughter worked with a 17yo coach and whomever was home on college break. This year, that awesome coach moved up to coach those other girls as L5's and we are stuck again with the 17yo and other not-so-good coaches as the head coach works with the L5-6-7's.
Do I have a right to complain? Am I just being an overbearing gym mom that thinks her DD is better than what she is? I don't want to be like that! I don't want to be one of those moms! I was pretty happy overall with the gym as it was a small gym (only like 15 girls on team last year) and this year there are over 28! Any suggestions ideas/ feedback are welcome. Thank you for reading my rant :-/
A new girl just joined the team from another gym and she is the same age as my daughter (7) and did L3 where she was last year. She has all of her skills for L4. Her mother complained to the coaches that she was "bored" with L4 so they moved her up and she is trying L5! I don't see her as being any more mature or better than my daughter, but I would like to know why they allowed her to move up to 5. My dd has more of the L5 skills than she does. I feel like the coaches are by-passing my daughter because she's a guaranteed paycheck and this new girl could always go back to her other gym if her mom is not happy. I also feel like going to L5 would push my DD a little harder because she would be with the older girls. Right now, the gym groups l3 and l4 together, so a lot of the time the newer girls slow down the older girls and there is definitely less focus.
Another thing that frustrates me is that last year, the L4's worked exclusivley with one coach. She is an AWESOME coach and I was looking forward to her working with my DD this year. Last year as a L3 my daughter worked with a 17yo coach and whomever was home on college break. This year, that awesome coach moved up to coach those other girls as L5's and we are stuck again with the 17yo and other not-so-good coaches as the head coach works with the L5-6-7's.
Do I have a right to complain? Am I just being an overbearing gym mom that thinks her DD is better than what she is? I don't want to be like that! I don't want to be one of those moms! I was pretty happy overall with the gym as it was a small gym (only like 15 girls on team last year) and this year there are over 28! Any suggestions ideas/ feedback are welcome. Thank you for reading my rant :-/