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Hi. I wonder if you wise parents and coaches can help me clearly figure out the pros and cons of reducing my DD's hours for a little while so that she can try increasing her time in another sport.
She'll be 6 at the end of the year so it's not like she's a star or anything. But she is in a program where a certain amount of commitment is kind of expected.
She's currently doing 2 hrs twice weekly and just loves it. Her coach has talked vaguely about transitioning her to a squad that trains 8 hours pw over 3 days. She didn't say a date but I think she was hinting at next year? (I didn't ask because I'm not quite ready for the answer).
DD adores gym and would love to do more. The doubt in my mind is that she loves lots of things and seems to have a pretty good knack for them all. (Sorry I feel really braggish saying that but I'm pretty sure it's not all parent bias).
So far she's been doing 2 days of gym and only 1 each of other things. In her dream world she'd like to do them all every day but obviously that'll never happen.
I'm thinking of asking to drop down to one day gym for one term (3 mths) so she can try doing 2 days of something else ... and see if she misses it, or if she loves something else as much/more if given more time to focus on it. Does that make sense? Before we say yes to another day. In case she'd rather more days at something else. Get her thinking about what she wants vs what she's offered, before she has to choose and give something up. So that's the 'pro'.
It's really the possible cons I'm wondering about. I'd hate for the gym to be upset. Partly because I wonder if she'd be dropped from the group, or just plain not do as well as the other girls because she's missed things. But also because her group seems to be subsidised by the club and I don't want to be ungrateful. (I don't pay much more for her than I do for her big brother who only goes 1 hr pw).
It's kind of bad timing because she's about to have her first competition (IDP 1) so I guess there will be more of those coming up. But the timing will only get worse as she continues so I feel a bit "now or never" to try it (we don't have a long summer hol like most of you so there's not really any other time in the future to try different things).
And I don't want to tell the gym why.
Sorry to be so long. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
She'll be 6 at the end of the year so it's not like she's a star or anything. But she is in a program where a certain amount of commitment is kind of expected.
She's currently doing 2 hrs twice weekly and just loves it. Her coach has talked vaguely about transitioning her to a squad that trains 8 hours pw over 3 days. She didn't say a date but I think she was hinting at next year? (I didn't ask because I'm not quite ready for the answer).
DD adores gym and would love to do more. The doubt in my mind is that she loves lots of things and seems to have a pretty good knack for them all. (Sorry I feel really braggish saying that but I'm pretty sure it's not all parent bias).
So far she's been doing 2 days of gym and only 1 each of other things. In her dream world she'd like to do them all every day but obviously that'll never happen.
I'm thinking of asking to drop down to one day gym for one term (3 mths) so she can try doing 2 days of something else ... and see if she misses it, or if she loves something else as much/more if given more time to focus on it. Does that make sense? Before we say yes to another day. In case she'd rather more days at something else. Get her thinking about what she wants vs what she's offered, before she has to choose and give something up. So that's the 'pro'.
It's really the possible cons I'm wondering about. I'd hate for the gym to be upset. Partly because I wonder if she'd be dropped from the group, or just plain not do as well as the other girls because she's missed things. But also because her group seems to be subsidised by the club and I don't want to be ungrateful. (I don't pay much more for her than I do for her big brother who only goes 1 hr pw).
It's kind of bad timing because she's about to have her first competition (IDP 1) so I guess there will be more of those coming up. But the timing will only get worse as she continues so I feel a bit "now or never" to try it (we don't have a long summer hol like most of you so there's not really any other time in the future to try different things).
And I don't want to tell the gym why.
Sorry to be so long. Any thoughts would be appreciated.