MaineDad
Proud Parent
Hey parents, I need some perspective on what you feel would be acceptable in your gym. Our head coach is part owner of our gym and she just had her first baby earlier this year. She regularly brings her infant to practice in a carrier or a bouncy seat and keeps an eye on her while she coaches our girls. In some cases during warm ups she is carrying around the baby. I will say that this is not every day every practice but it certainly has become a pattern. To me this is very upsetting for a bunch of reasons. #1 for safety reasons. How can she be spotting my child or keeping her safe as a 10 year old Level 9 doing some very challenging new skills when her attention is only half on coaching and half on watching her baby? Some practices there are 2 or 3 coaches coaching but sometimes it's just the head coach alone. #2 I pay a LOT of money to have my daughter get the best possible training from the coach and I feel a bit cheated by this. The rest of us parents had this same problem and had to arrange for child care when we were at work. We couldn't bring our infant children to the office with us and I feel it's reasonable for our coach to do the same.
The boosters club feels that this should be addressed as individual families and they won't bring it up with the coach as a united front. How do you guys feel about this? I can almost understand an older child that can take care of themselves but an infant that needs constant attention? Maybe this is normal... I dunno.
We are the only family in the gym with a 2 time TOPS team member and we are often doing training that requires us to bring the coach with us on trips with just my daughter and us so we don't want to do any harm to our relationship by complaining about this. We know that coach/family relationship is so important.
We are in a tough spot of trying to decide if this gym can meet the needs of our gymnast who will need extra training for HOPES next year and are considering whether or not we need to find another gym.
This is not helping matters. Any thoughts?
The boosters club feels that this should be addressed as individual families and they won't bring it up with the coach as a united front. How do you guys feel about this? I can almost understand an older child that can take care of themselves but an infant that needs constant attention? Maybe this is normal... I dunno.
We are the only family in the gym with a 2 time TOPS team member and we are often doing training that requires us to bring the coach with us on trips with just my daughter and us so we don't want to do any harm to our relationship by complaining about this. We know that coach/family relationship is so important.
We are in a tough spot of trying to decide if this gym can meet the needs of our gymnast who will need extra training for HOPES next year and are considering whether or not we need to find another gym.
This is not helping matters. Any thoughts?