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[quote=Anonymous]You mentioned how you feel and how your DH feels, but not really how your DD feels. Does she want to do competitive gymnastics?

I’m a mom of a competitive gymnast. 4th grade is considered late if she’s joining a DP program so she must have a lot of natural talent if the coaches are inviting her at this point. 4th grade is a very typical age to join an xcel team and that’s a great program especially for girls going into tween/teen years.

I think it’s really important for girls that age to have an activity outside of school to sustain them as friendships shift. If she is just doing school-based activities, all of her social eggs are in one basket. My DD loves her team because she is with a mix of girls from many different schools, all races and family backgrounds, and a multiage group. It’s been really healthy for her to be in such a mixed group and to have hours of time with zero access to laptops and phones. The travel has been a positive, too. It forces her to stay on top of homework and has also given her a lot of concentrated social time but extracted her from some things I wasn’t thrilled about- sleepover culture, middle school dances, etc.

Don’t worry about injuries. They’re less likely with more practice and more strength and conditioning work. My DD’s teammates so far have had many injuries. But all of them happened doing benign every day things: stepping off a curb weirdly, tripping on a step, playing on an exercise machine that they were told not to play on, and kicking a box instead of picking it up.[/quote]

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