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Last night my oldest dd (17) had her last practice, she is officially done with training gymnastics. It's crazy to think she's done, mostly because she was my first born, and my first to ever step foot in a gym. There were a lot of tears last night, it was sort of heart breaking seeing her say...

Our last competition of the season is coming up, it also happens to be the meet have host. This is the first year at this club and so it will be a new experience with volunteering at the meet. At our old gym only parents were allowed to volunteer, kids were only allowed to be their as...

Just a little background of our journey back to competition. At the end of last season our old gym wanted to move dd from level 3 to level 5 ( scoring out of 4 and the going 5) so she could eventually score out of 5 and go optional, but she fell doing a jump to high bar and broke her elbow...

As I was browsing the Internet this morning I came across this website that had 25 life lessons gymnastics teaches. As soon as I saw I thought about posting the link here. So I hope you all enjoy the read I know I did. It definitely made me see these in my girls...

A little background, I have 2 dd's in gym, my oldest being 17 and my younger one being 7. My older dd currently level 7 and my younger dd just got picked to join the pre optional group ( they train with the optionals but compete the level they are at, so she competes level 4, but they do a lot...

If this is not appropriate to post here please fell free to remove it. My oldest dd is 17 and in grade 12, one of her projects is to create a survey on a topic of her choice as long as it had to do with sociology or psychology, she asked me if I could post it here as it has to do with kids and...

My oldest dd recently got diagnosed with planters fasciitis, and also had a week spring ligament, ( part of it is because she is very flat footed). we are taking all is necessary to get her better and following the doctors orders, some of the things he said to do is buy supportive running shoes...

As the summer heat gears hotter,so do the gyms, I was wondering when you thinks it's to hot for gym, especially one without air conditioning. Generally at my dds gym if it's to hot they will condition and then play games or go out side with water guns and balloons and cool off a little( we have...

when I went to pick Odd up from gym today, she was in tears and said that her shin hurt, she told me it started hurting after she was doing leaps on floor( which we're switch slip, cat leap full) she thought it would go away so she started doing her in by's on vault and it hurt a lot more. I'm...

We just got back from the x- Ray and meeting with an orthopaedic surgeon, turns out dd broke two bones in her elbow ,her humorous, and her ulna. We have surgery scheduled for friday, they are going to insert two pins in her elbow to keep the bone in place and then cast it while she's under...

Ydd was working on her jump to the high bar at practice the other night. She was getting very frustrated with herself that she kept jumping and missing because all the other girls were making the jump and doing the high bar kip. It was her last turn before they had to rotate to beam, I really...

Although my youngest dd has worked a lot of level higher level skills, she's doesn't work a lot on the high bar because of her height, I haven't measured her in a while but I do know she still has a very long jump just to reach the low bar, if she stand under the bar and puts her hand in the air...

Thought this would be a fun story to tell. Enjoy! My husband picked the girls up from gymnastics yesterday, and my youngest dd got a rip. Dh was helping her apply a tea bag to her hand, and put Vitamin e oil on her rip while I was making supper, after he comes in the kitchen and says " I'm...

I know all of our dd are amazingly talented at gymnastics, but I was recently thinking about what other talents my kids have All of my kids can speak 3 languages (English,French, Spanish), my youngest dd plays piano and clarinet, my oldest dd plays the piano and saxophone. In my own opinion...

Hi everyone , we just recently got news that we will be moving back to Canada in July. I was born and raised in Canada, and so was my husband and my oldest two children were born there .We're moving back to the same town we lived In before and I've been talking to my close friends that owns, the...

My youngest dd is 7. Her gym has had her on elite track since she was put in pre team last year. ( I guess you can say she has natural talent) she just finished competing level 3 for experience and her coach is planning on scoring her out of 4 and 5 and compete optional next winter ( not sure...

I've been lurking on here for a while now but could never figure out how to make my own thread and finally figured it out. also i'm sorry in advance if this post if long.also if this isn't in the right place feel free to move it. My oldest dd is 16, we'll call her L . Over the past three...