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Gymcats only has 5 this year.

You could not be any more on target with that one. Booster clubs give the insider parents further opportunity to connect and look awesome to the gym and coaches. Meanwhile, they often drive new or passive parents further into the periphery.

Wanted to add to my post-- The number one thing those moms in that clique know instinctively, and their daughters know it too, is the easiest way to make those unwelcome "gym hoppers" move on to the next gym, is to never converse with them, avoid them, ignore them, exclude them, and make sure...

YES. There is usually a long-established clique of moms, and your child will struggle to build relationships with teammates if you aren't friends with their parents. What can make things even worse is if your child is the youngest--then she will likely have no power and become the punching bag...

Which means the parents who are patient and mindful of the coaches' time never get communication. And the over-involved squeaky wheels become very connected and become the insider parents of the gym. At some gyms, you have to compete or you are invisible, and the competition amongst the parents...

There are kind and supportive coaches in this world. Don't wait around for jerks and bad chemistry to change. I'm sorry you're faced with this. I know it is stressful and painful for the entire family.

Oh. Well, big props to the gyms in CA that are complying with the CA Department of Public Health.

Guessing gyms in CA are not competing any time soon: Non-Essential Travel 1. Except in connection with essential travel, Californians should avoid non-essential travel to any part of California more than 120 miles from one's place of residence, or to other states or countries. Avoiding travel...

In the U.S., everything is a divided political issue and, instead of strong leadership, we have leadership and the public pushing and shoving in opposite directions. At the ground level, everyone has a reason why they can’t be inconvenienced by all this “stay home when possible and avoid...

Making “me” decisions and “my family” decisions is what has gotten us into this mess. This is about all of us, our nation, our economy, our hospitals. Everyone should be participating in not being a pathway for the virus, but instead let’s get together, not wear masks, masks around the chin...

30-40 victims. And what was the magic number that it would have taken to side with the kids and the parents?

Bag balm is a great start. Beam shoes will solve it. Taping the problem areas before practice. Adding fat to the diet can help--avocados, dairy, etc. If it gets bad often--deep and meaty-looking--keep some vials of surgical glue on hand to seal the rips. Sometimes it will tear again the next...

We've switched our daughter multiple times. We've seen what you're describing repeatedly, in gyms that you've heard of. A lot of anxiety comes with looking like you're a problem family, but we are simply the family that says no. Our daughter wants to enjoy gymnastics. The sport is hard enough...

That's scary. Not a fan of BWOs at any age. Hated that my 8-year-old did BWOs on beam every day for months training for level 5 and throughout the level 5 season, THEN the coaches decided on BWO-BWO for her level 7 season. She complained about back soreness way too often that year, and it makes...

There are so many VALID reasons why a family might leave a gym, even a gym that is considered to be a good gym. Coaches that are negative yellers and unkind and your child is unhappy training with them. Gyms that have a lot of favoritism and it isn't in your child's favor. Gyms that don't want...

I'm just a parent. Only a couple opinions that I'm compelled to interject. Couldn't agree more with the direction you are going here: "I really feel there is not enough focus on strength training, body shaping, and drills/progressions for skills. The kids learn skills, but they are always...

We spent a couple years at a big gym in Region 1 that we didn't realize was very Christian conservative from ownership, through the coaches (most, maybe not all), and down to the families. One of the first questions you would be asked amongst the pack of gym moms was "what church do you go to?"...

These young women are so amazing. Hand the keys to this sport straight over to them. They should be the new board of directors.

What we've experienced at previous gyms and heard the same stories from friends, is less often flagrant hurtfulness but mostly this persistent exclusion. And even if it's a gym where parents aren't supposed to watch, some parents will follow the philosophy, but there will be a pack of moms in...

I've experienced all of that. I would add that you'd like to get the slightest feel for who these people are, and know that they give at least the tiniest crap about your kid/your family, so that when you go to meets you aren't saying well there's my daughter with some people that I don't know...