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Yes! There is/was an overarching organization that oversees the groups, but the concept is a local group where you exchange items with neighbors that you may no longer need. It's a great neighborhood concept. They aren't everywhere since someone has to admin it and manage it and each one is...

If you have a buy nothing facebook group locally, I'd ask there first for any mats first. I got a few things from neighbors for free there.

She absolutely loves it and would go every day if I let her so that's not the problem. The problem is how do we make it work with adult responsibilities so that we don't limit her.

Thank you for the feedback! I figured we'd have to find a way to make it work, but I was wondering what a typical schedule looks like since this is all new to me! I was surprised they moved to mornings over the summer, especially at this age. Everything feels so intense at such a young age when...

My daughter is younger, but she broke her wrist last year. We did lots of arts and crafts and one-on-one time with special activities. (Took her away for a weekend, visiting the zoo, etc.)

My daughter (4.5) is relatively new to the pre-team program and I'm looking into our summer programming. I just found out that the pre-team program continues in the summer, but it is in the mornings. I work full time and she goes to camp/school so I'm not sure we'd be able to continue during the...

Do you think she is tired or do you think it is a confidence issue? My daughter is also 4.5 and joined the pre-team program in November. The first few weeks she was a little apprehensive about it because all of the other girls were "so much better than she was." I was having intense mom-guilt at...

I'm new here and just trying to learn something about gymnastics since my daughter LOVES it. My daughter (4) has been doing rec gymnastics for 2 years. She wasn't progressing at the gym we were at since they only focused on teams and the rec program was lacking with poor instruction. We had an...