Trixiebelle
Proud Parent
Title pretty much sums up how I am feeling. DD is L7 training L8 and just turned 12. She is in honors classes in MS and the homework is adding up. She is training 16 hours per week and seems exhausted. She has Elite dreams (i haven't crushed those yet) and eat, sleeps, breaths chalk. She is struggling with fear issues learning her yurchenko and is going through a rough patch on her giant giant flyaway. I believe Her fear issues are well founded - especially with the vault and my tolerance as a parent for the danger of this sport has become very low.
We don't discuss the fear- but she did broach the subject with her dad showing him some videos of what she is working on and then saying she hope she doesn't break her neck and become paralyzed. We have always offered her the chance to leave this sport and I really pushed her to play intramural field hockey this past spring, hoping she would see that there is life after the gym... Unfortunately, she broke her thumb in hockey and had to sit out her last few meets.
Tonight I spoke with her again and asked her if she is having fun. The answer was an emphatic yes. So I am in a funk. I love her passion for this sport, I love how much she has learned and how far she has come, but I cannot get past MY fear for her and questioning if this is all worth it in the end. The hours, the injuries, the sacrifices she is making. She doesn't hesitate to say it is all worth it, but I don't feel the same way. Would it be a mistake to share my thoughts with her? She quit hockey because she wanted to focus entirely on gym and won't consider another sport, nor has she the time at this point.
Any advice from parents who have felt this way?
We don't discuss the fear- but she did broach the subject with her dad showing him some videos of what she is working on and then saying she hope she doesn't break her neck and become paralyzed. We have always offered her the chance to leave this sport and I really pushed her to play intramural field hockey this past spring, hoping she would see that there is life after the gym... Unfortunately, she broke her thumb in hockey and had to sit out her last few meets.
Tonight I spoke with her again and asked her if she is having fun. The answer was an emphatic yes. So I am in a funk. I love her passion for this sport, I love how much she has learned and how far she has come, but I cannot get past MY fear for her and questioning if this is all worth it in the end. The hours, the injuries, the sacrifices she is making. She doesn't hesitate to say it is all worth it, but I don't feel the same way. Would it be a mistake to share my thoughts with her? She quit hockey because she wanted to focus entirely on gym and won't consider another sport, nor has she the time at this point.
Any advice from parents who have felt this way?