Recent content by momnipotent

Which meet? I might be able to help more if I can see the schedule, but in our experience, the warm-up times are reserved for level 8+ except for regionals/nationals because the rules about number of touches for those levels changes if they are offered a general warm-up. Under level 8 they get...

I saw this today and immediately thought of this thread: I have been a swim coach for many years, and a swimmer myself for many more than that, but tonight I got to play my favorite role of all... Swim Mom! Clark had his first dual meet with his summer league and I helped out as a meet marshal...

I agree-it’s not safe and it’s a waste of money. The choice my children would have to make would be to change gyms or retire and pick another sport because I’m not paying for upper level optional money for unsafe and ineffective coaching or for them to hang out with friends.

I think I would size up. Waist fit always seems pretty forgiving IMO

Trampoline and tumbling might be another option to look into.

Mind your own business? In my mind, it’s pretty much the same as a coach having their own child on the team. Would you be upset if they shared food or picked up their own daughter? This is no different in my mind. As far as treatment, yes, they should try not to play favorites, but it’s their...

@txgymfan said it better than I ever could, but mental blocks happen for lots of different reasons and don’t always make sense. I will add that the pressure involved in the continued ultimatums is most likely doing more harm than good. You need to totally back off and adopt the attitude of...

That’s only for naturalized citizens though, not people who have dual citizenship through birth. For example, my husband is Korean. If he were to choose to become a US citizen through naturalization, he would have to renounce his Korean citizenship. My children, however, could maintain both US...

It might be a requirement of the other country, not the US.

I don’t think there’s anything you could have done in either situation (unless another family lives near you and you could have called them to see if they could have brought her that day.) Kids need to learn to deal with disappointment. We don’t do them any favors if we try to shield them from...

What about athletes that are already coaches or judges? Will they have to take this athlete specific course?

Go to the owner or switch gyms. Or sit in the viewing area and loudly call him out every time he does any of those things. (I say this partially tongue in cheek, but I am at the point as a parent/gymnastics mom that I would actually do it just to show my kids I will always stand up for them and...

I think the answer to this question depends. Do the girls have lesser skills because they are not receiving adequate training/conditioning at this gym or is it just that the natural ability isn’t there but the gym will take any girl who wants to compete onto team? If it’s the latter, I would say...

I agree that you can’t confuse fears with a lack of passion, but I also feel that passion means wanting to go despite the fears. I think that the tell is that when you talk about quitting, she isn’t sure, but then you say you are going to make her she doesn’t want to. Sure, because you making...

I don’t think it will be an issue if you move her to the other gym for pre-team through level 6 (or even just 4 or 5) and then want to move back. I doubt that they will even remember she ever did rec at their gym by then and if they do, I don’t think they will care-it would be different if you...