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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the gymnastics mom and just want to commiserate. We have to deal with level move ups and that part sounds similar. The girls have to have all of their Level X skills to compete, but during the time when they prep for the season you will only ever hear chatter about the skills that the girls have. The moms will never volunteer that Larla is struggling with her back tuck- it’s always that Larla already has her giant and does my child have their giant? My favorite was the mom who had to update her payments with the front desk when her daughter was moved up and announced to them “we’re level 3!”. No, your daughter is Level 3 and you are the grownup who pays for it.

These activities attract the crazies, I think because they can be measured and leveled at a young age in a way that ball sports can’t until kids are far older. They also have a pretty high initial talent barrier to entry, so there’s an acute awareness of how good a kid is from Day 1.

Even a deliberately healthy environment- like our gym when it first opened- will eventually see this toxic behavior when parents bring their kids over from other places. I think it’s the parents, not the activities.[/quote]

Op here. Our studio was initially very conscious of being positive and not tolerating toxic behavior… and now that more outsiders are coming in, it’s kind of gone out the window. Some of the moms are crazy, which is to be expected. But it’s the previously non crazy moms turned nutso that I struggle with… and apparently my DD is struggling with the girls changing too. [/quote]

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