DD is 6, in her first season. She trains with an open TOPs class once a week, team twice per week and was invited to a closed TOPs class once per week. The closed TOPs class is tested monthly...if you pass you live another month, if you don't well, you're out. To be honest, I thought there was a mistake when she was invited. Don't get me wrong...she's very strong and flexible and shows early promise on team, but in the TOPs class she's bottom of the totem pole. All but one of the other girls have already been on team a year and are further along than Muffin. Anyway, there are 9 skills to be tested THIS SATURDAY. She's got 5 of them down, but it will most likely take an act of God for her to nail all 4 of her missing skills on the same day. I personally wouldn't mind taking the stress level down a notch by eliminating this TOPs class but my DD is obsessed with passing. She cries HARD in frustration, asks why she isn't good enough, says she wants everyone to know she belongs there, practices around the clock, basically thinks the world revolves around Saturday TOPs. My heart just aches when I think of how she'll feel if she doesn't pass. I don't know anyone who works harder than this child, even adults. I'm just trying to be prepared...any advice on what to say to soothe my baby and help her through it if she just doesn't pass? Ugghhh I cry just thinking about it.