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No skill rewards here. Perhaps some ice cream for hard work.
No skill rewards here. Perhaps some ice cream for hard work.
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I don’t offer rewards for skills or staying focused that is totally up to her however we will sometimes stop for a treat on the way home to celebrate either getting a new skill that’s taken her a long time or just when I think she needs a bit of a pick me up and to acknowledge all the hard work she puts in as gymnastics can be a very demanding sport and at times seems like there are no rewards as the skills get harder they take longer to learn.
Yesterday my daughter asked, during a water break at practice, if I would buy her a donut if she improved her kips. (Still muscled up.) Sure?
She tends to do things like this when she is very motivated about a skill. She wants to add external motivation to her internal motivation.
Omg! So did I!!!!HAHAHA.
I don't have the attention span for that. How did you guys keep track?Had a hardtime with the squat on- so we decided after she did a 100 good ones she got a little stuffed animal. She decided on it and it gave her a little courage and motivation that summer.
My two girls, ages barely 7 and 11.5, have started Xcel Bronze and have been sloppy about staying on the beam. They are capable of doing staying on the beam during their fairly simple routine if they concentrate, but neither of them is solidly paying attention to balance.
I am considering having them work together toward a reward -- five practices each falling off the beam no more than once and you can get a toy/fro-yo/app or something similar. If it were a skill where I thought they had physical limitations and were trying, I wouldn't do it -- but for something like staying focused enough to not fall of the beam as much -- what do you think of offering an external reward?