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Definitely search for support groups in your local area and find one that fits your style. Join it and then be active! :) It really helps, I promise! I have a hard time with the being active bit. ;) Life gets in the way because we are so busy! But yes, join the homeschooling group on here and...

I have a 2005 gymmie, please add me! :)

I'm so terribly sorry for your loss. I am praying for you and your family. (((hugs)))

Our gym bumps the hours and moves them to daytime during the summer, and prices it accordingly. As far as I know, that is the norm for the area. I have no idea what working moms do, I'm guessing they carpool or have a home sitter that does the driving? I do know I've seen a lot of grandma's even...

Razorbacks or OU, either will be fine. :) We are split on our SEC teams in our homes. I love watching both!

Wow, a child should not be put in that position and other children should not be allowed to behave that way. That's appalling! I would move purely on the fact that the coaches won't stand up for her and are allowing that behavior to continue! I would definitely push her to at least try another...

For our example of hours when she was in rec she did 1 hour a week, when she moved to preteam she did 3 hours a week, now in L3 she does 4 hours a week (except during summer she does 6 hours a week). She wishes for more hours like others in our area but our gym doesn't believe in that. The...

7.5 Started Rec 8.5 Started Preteam 9 Started Level 3 At almost 10 now she will be repeating Level 3 this year to solidify her L3 skills and gain confidence.

DD had hurt her back last fall and ended up in physical therapy, he told me that she needed to be getting 6 servings of protein a day to build up her core because she had a below average amount of strength in that area. That was shocking considering she is a gymnast. I really didn't think it was...

Please add me, I homeschool both of my kiddos.

If she's too old at 6, my DD is ancient. She didn't even step foot in a gym until 7 1/2 (didn't know how to do a cartwheel). At 9.5, she just completed her first year of Level 3 and will be repeating. It was NOT a great year. She is capable, but had a hard time competing, so we decided she would...

DD definitely can't eat big right before practice, which means dinner is when we get home at 8:30. She has a light meal or heavy snack before we leave and that's it. If she eats heavy she gets sick to her tummy during practice.

DD was close last fall then they just stopped working them in practice for over a month and she lost them. She's just now getting them back. If she had been in gymnastics since she was itty bitty this probably wouldn't be as difficult for her (I'm assuming here) but she didn't start until she...

If she will change coaches next year unless the coach is actually harming her (which it doesn't sound like it here IMO) I would just keep an eye on things and let it go unless otherwise necessary.

Is this coach going to be her coach all the way through? Or will she have a different coach next year (assuming she moves up)? If she is going to have to stay with this coach for years to come I would watch some more practices to see if this is actually the same issue coming up again, or an...

I missed that part also. If you feel that it might be part of a bigger issue, then maybe you should stay and watch more often to see if it is happening again.

It is highly unlikely the coach was avoiding your daughter, most likely she just felt a need to be helping the girls that were at the other station for a moment, maybe because they were doing it wrong and needed the correction. I can't imagine that she was specifically avoiding spotting your...

So are you upset that the coach wasn't spotting your DD or that she was yelled at? I don't think my L3 DD has ever been spotted on straight jumps on the vault (they are doing those on the vault table now, as part of uptraining), so I guess I don't see why she would need it? I can understand...

I don't think I even realized my DD was a perfectionist until recently when she didn't win a contest in her team with bars dismount to see how far they could go. I tried telling her she is years younger and half a foot shorter than half her team but it didn't sway her that she should have won...

My DD is one of the younger in her group and so therefore her coaches would tend to baby her a bit. She is also a bit flighty, but can control it when needed. But because they were babying her she would go off in lala land a LOT. I came down pretty hard on her (it was affecting her gymnastics...