my girls are both Gymnasts!! and recently we have been looking into switching gyms to a
gym that my youngest could compete at! *oldest too if she chooses! but it is my younges who wants to compete!! Anyhow I think we could do it if we cut costs!!
how do you all do it to make ends =meet but still give your kids these things! my youngest is taletned at this and has been told even this morning by a coach and she has been telling me for well over a year that she wants to be an olympic gymnast!
if we did this gym that we went to today we would have to cut WAY back!!!
what would you do? this is something that I really feel would be good for my younges!!

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Kelly mom to 3 great girls A Peanut, a monkey and a little burrito.

If you can find a way, do it! She will love it! Quite and opportunity, and who knows, it might pay for her college one day!

we've had our 6 year old in gymnastics since she was 3. It got pretty crazy when she was promoted to 3 days a week/9 hours bc she "is so good". (I noticed all the girls were "so good" according to the owner.) Hard to turn that down when someone praises your kid like that. It got to be $350/month for competition level and jsut nuts. I was sitting there bc she is only six while the other moms just dropped off. Our 4 year old was miserable. we took the summer off and she hasnt mentioned it once.

I grumbled about the cost once and the mom next to me said "try horseback riding, we pay $800/month to board the horse and additional for lessons." made me realize that we are all making ourselves insane to give the kids way too much.

I'm also relieved bc most of my back pain is from years of high school gymnastics. Unless she is an Olympic contender, I feel it wont help her career or joints in the long run.

my dd's friend goes and told dd she wishes she could quit but her mom wont let her.

all this makes me think we will go back to recreational so she can just be a kid. much cheaper at 1 hour per week and $100/month.

we are talking about the cheaper gym now! I asked her what she liked about the gyms!
she seemed to like them all the same soo now I just need to get it out of my oldest!!
she wants to stay at the gym we are at now! the thing is I dont want to go back and forth between 2 places!! and also I think it would be weird for all of us if we take 1 kid out and not the other!! (esp if they know that younger dd wants to compete!) well see!!!
they go 2 days a week right now!

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Kelly mom to 3 great girls A Peanut, a monkey and a little burrito.

If it was something my daughter really wanted, I would find a way to do it. I think it is so important to let kids participate in the activities that they want to. Now granted if your dd did not want to do it (which dosen't sound like it is the case) then I wouldn't. My ds has been in gymnastics since he was 2 and he started at TAGS (which you probably know) and then he went to community ed (which is actually a great program here in Rosemount) and this year he is old enough to go into the boys program at TAGS, but I think he is just doing it for fun, so Iasked him what he wanted to do and he said stay where he is (he loves the guy who runs it and his wife who also teaches) so he will stay. We will probsbly do the same thing with dd Tags when she is 2 and then community ed and then give her the choice.