My daughter (almost 7) is on pre team and has been since March. She moved up to pre team after about 1 year in rec. At some point fairly early on -perhaps around the time that she got confident in her cartwheels -she completely stopped practicing outside of class. She loves her class and desperately wants to move to team -but I have to question her dedication if she never wants to practice outside of class. Her coach is planning to move her to team (x cel bronze) in a month or so. I am starting to wonder if the sacrifice that our family will make for team will be worth it since I am not sure that she really really LOVES gymnastics the way she claims to. Honestly I think she's more interested in the whole idea of being on team than she is in working hard and getting better. The gym that she is at is about 20-25 mins from our house and her team practices would be at night 2x per week for 2 hours. I know so many of you go to great lengths to get your kids to gymnastics but for our family with 2 younger kids it will be very difficult to work out the logistics of having one parent home and one parent at the gym on these two nights. Yes, we can do it -but we would like to do it knowing that she's working hard and really really wants this. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation? Is it OK not to practice at all outside of class (she's only at the gym 3hours per week at this point so it's not like there's no time to practice). I'm really torn...