This came to me while replying to another thread but it is an issue I think I've been wrestling with since the beginning. First and foremost we want our daughter to be safe, and feel supported but I'm not sure exactly where the line is drawn between being supportive and meddling parents.
Our situation is a little different perhaps than some families because:
1.) We do need to do some practice monitoring to make sure that this is not physically too much for her due to some health issues. One of us or my MIL (who has a daughter that competed L10 this spring) were initially attending all practices and even now we pop in periodically.
2.)We're kind of jumping into the middle both in her life and her life in gymnastics. She was a gymnast since age four and she came to live with us this past winter at age ten after an extended hospital stay. In some ways perhaps we need to be more involved with her gymnastics just to show her that we support her interests. In other ways we don't want to give her any idea that our love has any conditions and we get a sense that her parents were very vested in her success. [We also get a sense that she really loves this herself or we wouldn't even be going down this road.]
Having said all of that I would love to hear from other parents who have been at this longer than we have.
Our situation is a little different perhaps than some families because:
1.) We do need to do some practice monitoring to make sure that this is not physically too much for her due to some health issues. One of us or my MIL (who has a daughter that competed L10 this spring) were initially attending all practices and even now we pop in periodically.
2.)We're kind of jumping into the middle both in her life and her life in gymnastics. She was a gymnast since age four and she came to live with us this past winter at age ten after an extended hospital stay. In some ways perhaps we need to be more involved with her gymnastics just to show her that we support her interests. In other ways we don't want to give her any idea that our love has any conditions and we get a sense that her parents were very vested in her success. [We also get a sense that she really loves this herself or we wouldn't even be going down this road.]
Having said all of that I would love to hear from other parents who have been at this longer than we have.