Writing lines a punishment for sports
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Anonymous
| Rising 1st grader is on a preteam at gymnastics and she loves it but isn’t always the best behaved. Doing cartwheels when she isn’t supposed to, getting on the trampoline, tickling other girls etc. Coach has had several conversation with her, had her sit out, and if so extra conditioning. Friday after practice she told me that she wants her to write “I will not good off at practice” 10 times at being it to the next practice because she just doesn’t seem to be taking the other reprimands seriously and the other girls on her team are not having this issue. I was kind of shocked by the request to make a 6yr old write lines for just silly behavior. My daughter absolutely loves the class and doesn’t not want to quit so I guess we will do the lines, but I feel this is really outdated and not going to be very effective. |
Anonymous
| Your daughter is not mature enough for the expectations of that class. |
Anonymous
Sorry about the typos, my brain is tired. |
Anonymous
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Why haven't you talked to your daughter about her behavior?
Is she always this fidgety? Does she have adhd? |
Anonymous
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1. Your daughter should not be tickling other children. You need to teach her to keep her hands to herself and not touch other children.
2. Your response to the teachers reasonable request holds clues as to why your child is not well behaved. |
Anonymous
I have never had any complaints from school, other than she has used a few choice words(she can fiery) I do talk to her about it and she mostly just ignores the conversation and says she will listen next time. She will usually do better for the next couple of practices and then she’s back to doing what she wants instead of listening. |
Anonymous
None of this is acceptable. And she's had "several conversations?" She's lucky it's just 10 lines. |
Anonymous
| Can you go to practice? Once she starts with her nonsense, you take her out of class and take her home. If you have to take her out 3 times, she's out of gymnastics for the year. The coach wants to show that she means business and you have to do the same. |
Anonymous
Apparently talking to her isn’t effective. Since you seem unwilling to discipline her, it is up to the gymnastics coach to try to modify her behavior. If she can’t remember to behave appropriately when you tell her to, maybe writing lines will help her remember. Ten short lines seems very reasonable for a first grader. When my kids were doing gymnastics, even if it was an hour of open gym, the instructors gave them a lecture every time that gymnastics was DANGEROUS, involving height, flight, and rotation. Aside from being a nuisance by goofing off, her behavior could lead to her or someone else getting hurt. Even if what she’s doing isn’t directly dangerous, if it keeps someone from hearing instructions, or distracts a gymnast in the middle of an action or distracts the teacher from supervising that action, she becomes a hazard. Just because the school hasn’t complained is irrelevant. Maybe your child behaves better at school, or maybe they simply put up with it. But you know she’s behaving inappropriately at gymnastics, which under the best of circumstances is disrespectful to her teacher and the other students. You need to get this behavior under control, and if you can’t you need to remove her from the class until she matures enough to participate respectfully and safely. |
Anonymous
| I don't understand this at all. Is this an elite gymnastics practice where she's training for the olympics? Why can't she have some fun? She can't turn a friggin cartwheel? |
Anonymous
| Find a different program for your six year old. How has this devolved into a disciplinary focus? |
Anonymous
| Kids love their abusers and are desperate to please them. The fact that your daughter loves this class shouldn't guide your decision. Do what is best for her. |
Anonymous
It is a class. When you are in a class, you do what the class is doing and don’t disrupt the class. Presumably, doing what the class is doing will be fun are you shouldn’t be taking the class. I’m sure the class will be turning “friggin cartwheels” as part of the class, but they also want to do other things. If she just wants to turn “friggin cartwheels”, then she can go to a park and turn them to her heart’s content. When you are part of a group, any group, there are expectations, some of which will be dependent on what type of group it is. A minimum expectation is that you will be respectful of others in the group, which she is not. |
Anonymous
Did you see the part about tickling other gymnasts? That’s not acceptable. This whole thing is a troll post anyway. No parent could be this clueless. |
Anonymous
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She is a KINDERGARTENER!
This is not through right class for her. Yes,if all she wants to do is play, do cartwheels and have funeral with her friends, then find that kind of glass for her. Plenty of time for a team in the future. |