The girls are going to join swim team/swim lessons at the Boys and Girls Club. DD1 is really excited about it, she's been practicing different strokes with the lifeguards during free swim time this summer. DD2 is along for the ride because she loves swimming and her sister. Today they're doing an eval to see which level they'll be in. For the fall season they will likely end up in an advanced lesson level to get the strokes down, and then hopefully by winter join the pre-competition team. All the practices are after school while they're at the club anyway, so it's the perfect sport since it requires zero schedule juggling on my part until they start doing actual meets.
Beau's son is doing soccer again, I'm pretty sure. His mom usually handles signing him up and he loves soccer way more than baseball. It'll be fun to get to go watch his games on the weekends again. They're all held at a local park so the girls can watch and go play if they want to.
I got a sports TWERK finally. We had to meet with her coaches Thursday night. A whole lot of BS (too many drink breaks and she has to use the bathroom during 3hr practices fully masked). Deadline is there but not. She needs all skills to compete and hopefully the first meet will be early October or late September. They don't want her to quit or feel like they think she should quit. DD needed to write up some goals and share them with coaches. DD and I decided to do small weekly goals so she could hopefully check them off. One hopefully increase her confidence and two to make her feel like she is making improvements instead of "I want to compete fall season" and it is a goal that will take lots of time to get to. I asked them to try and give DD more positive feedback instead of negative and got the we always give out positive feedback.
DD has not gotten the new level 3 vault. They just started working on it Thursday last week. We worked on it Saturday in her private and she made it over. Monday night she did it but it was super ugly which was her goal. "Vault to do level 3 but it is okay to be ugly and for me to fall on my butt"
Coach A who we have had in the past and have a love/hate deal going with asked DD to stay next week for power tumbling. This came out of the blue. DD says no she doesn't want to be yelled at. I told her we need to ask a few others their thought and talked with A before she makes up her mind.
DD2 hasn't been to a soccer practice all summer. First we were away, then it got canceled, then we had plans, then it got canceled, and now she's away and missing again tomorrow. Hopefully she will be able to go next week and they won't cancel again. She really misses it.
DD1 doesn't usually do an organized sport in the fall, so hopefully she will start boxing again. I want her to train a little for basketball season. She wants to play travel, which is a step up from rec, and she won't make it if she doesn't practice a little.
Kids are both doing soccer which is my favorite fall sport. But this year was unique and they did spring soccer also and I’m just kind of over all the soccer.
In addition to rec softball, she also wants to try out for the ‘tournament team.’ So we have her doing 3 softball lessons a week - twice to work mainly on hitting with my friend’s dad, who is one of the softball coaches at the high school, and once a week to work mainly on pitching with a mom from our school who runs a pitching coaching business with her twin sister. This is our first experience getting a kid extra help with a sport. For some reason it feels weird. But DH and I don’t really know how to help her with the mechanics of softball hitting and pitching.
Soccer is just to play with her friend. Most kids have moved on to competitive, so I’m hoping soccer will just be an easy and fun way to get exercise.
Both of mine are able to play in middle school this year. They are playing soccer in the fall. My younger DD is 10, 5th grade, and is a peanut. She’s tiny and the idea that she is going to be on the field with 14 year old 8th graders is hilarious.
My older DD (adhd) gets hyper focused on stuff. Right now, it’s soccer, so that’s good. She went to camp last week after not really having played since 5th grade and the coach called me after to tell me that she is really good. I laughed - she’ll lose interest soon 😂
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
So proud of my girls! They actually made the pre-comp team instead of doing the lessons! They're going to be beside themselves excited when I tell them tonight.
Post by librarychica on Aug 11, 2021 10:24:10 GMT -5
We are just committed to ice skating now. They love it. It’s a thing. They just did the testing at the end of the summer session last week and for the first time they will be in separate levels — DD2 is half the size of the other kids and just needs some more time in pre-alpha where DD1 is ready to move up. So there were some tears there but mostly about being separated from her sister. Thankfully their practice times overlap.
Running club starts before school next month. Hurray! Also my children have a firm opposition to the very idea of team sports that I don’t fully get.
186momx, honestly is this the only gym in town? I don't understand why they keep moving your daughter up levels, but then giving her all these deadlines and threats to not let her compete. Why did they even move her up if she wasn't ready. It seems cruel!
DD1 summer swim season ended on the 1st and is now in the thick of XC. She loves it and we are excited for the season. DD2 we are taking a break from gymnastics (and honestly I am praying we never go back, it's truly my least favorite sport). She wants to try diving, so that begins next week. Should be interesting! DD3 nothing for her until swim season begins again in September.
Is anyone else running into issues with a shortage of coaches?
DS was wait listed (with all beginner swimmers) because they don't have any coaches. My heart hurts for him. They have 38 kids waitlisted, so I don’t know that he will get to swim this year. We are trying to get lessons lines up so he can make the team over the summer. But it seems as if we are going to be okay with baseball. Not sure yet.
xctsclrx, it is here. Normally during the summer they have morning and evening swim lessons and all of the pools in 3 different districts in my area are only offering morning or evening and very limited classes because they can't find people to work. Swim instructors normally make minimum wage but why would high school or college kids want to make $12.75 and have to work and be responsible when McDonalds is paying 16+ starting wage and most of them aren't open for indoor ordering or dinning. We have a lifeguard shortage too due to the same reason so not a lot of rec swims going on because they can't staff them.
We have a lifeguard shortage in my area too (SW PA). Only 1/3rd of the city pools had enough staff to open their pools. Our local wave pool has limited capacity due to staffing issues and only half of the pool is open. My sons have been in swim lessons at the local Y and the class sizes are pretty small. You have to stalk the app/website to register as soon as the lessons are announced.
... I just signed DS up for a new hockey session that starts at 8am on Sundays... WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS? The rink is a 20 minute drive away and I swear it takes 20 minutes to get all his gear on.. waaah.
I also wish we hadn't already enrolled him in hockey lessons and bought all the gear.. we had been waiting for this program to open up because they provide FULL GEAR with the cost of enrollment.. so now we have full gear, and I'm hoping they'll let us get his new gear in the size up. We'll see, I guess.
... I just signed DS up for a new hockey session that starts at 8am on Sundays... WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS? The rink is a 20 minute drive away and I swear it takes 20 minutes to get all his gear on.. waaah.
Dude. 8AM? Why did you do that? You must love him very much.
... I just signed DS up for a new hockey session that starts at 8am on Sundays... WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS? The rink is a 20 minute drive away and I swear it takes 20 minutes to get all his gear on.. waaah.
Dude. 8AM? Why did you do that? You must love him very much.
I was just reacting to the hickey stuff 20 minutes away. I didn’t even see the 8 am thing. So yeah that would be a “you are going if your dad signs you up and takes you, otherwise no.”
Post by sandandsea on Aug 13, 2021 12:21:04 GMT -5
Both boys are doing soccer. Ds1 is on a comp team and had practice three nights a week for 90 minutes each and games/tournaments on weekends. DS2 is easy peasy rec at 9am on Saturday for one hour. He will have 3 friends on his team so he’s excited. Ds1 also quit cub scouts this year so it feel easier.
sandandsea , this is our last year of cub scouts, and it is bitter sweet. Part of me can't wait for it to be over with. We were never super involved either like we barely camped because it was always terrible weather.
I have 0 desire for him to do boy scouts. In cub scouts the parent attends until 2nd or 3rd grade, and then after that it was the pandemic and they are always in a group never alone with the leaders. But for boy scouts, I am afraid of all that sexual predator stuff. IDK, maybe I'm just being extra, but I have zero desire to learn about new scout groups at this point and figure out how to bridge over etc.
sandandsea , this is our last year of cub scouts, and it is bitter sweet. Part of me can't wait for it to be over with. We were never super involved either like we barely camped because it was always terrible weather.
I have 0 desire for him to do boy scouts. In cub scouts the parent attends until 2nd or 3rd grade, and then after that it was the pandemic and they are always in a group never alone with the leaders. But for boy scouts, I am afraid of all that sexual predator stuff. IDK, maybe I'm just being extra, but I have zero desire to learn about new scout groups at this point and figure out how to bridge over etc.
Yeah. I don’t see him as a Boy Scout kind of kid in high school so I don’t feel a pressing desire to keep him going. He did it in K-3rd and we are happy for him to move on. And it just started feeling like a lot even though it was only a couple times a month. I think now that sports are more time intensive it will limit his options to do all the things he’s done before. His favorite part of cub scouts was the campout a but we also camp as a family and he likes it just as much if not more. And now that he knows friends well it would theoretically be possible to plan a friend campout.
Fwiw DH has hated cub scouts from the beginning. It’s too much formality for the sake of formality and too much talking time and not enough doing time. And there’s nothing in cub scouts that Dh/me/Ds wouldn’t do on our own anyway.
I think DS liked it but ultimately would have just watched TV if we hadn’t said you are going. DH was fine with it, but doesn’t want to to camp in 30 degree weather.
And yes the thing we do are the same thing every year. Not much different. Unlike Girl Scouts where we do different field trips and there is room to grow with day camps.
DD did her round off backhand spring Friday without a spot. About 6 in a row using the cheese mat drill. Huge accomplishment and the look on her face was worth all the stupid gym coach drama.
So DD2 had her first week of diving, and guys, it is going so well. It is a team of all beginners, and she is loving it. I swear gymnastics was slowly killing her confidence. Also, can I just say that I am learning that I prefer men coaches over female ones - is that awful? I swear women coaches are just meaner/more harsh. Like, can we lighten up and have a little fun here?
madringal, yes on older female coaches being harsh and no fun
I scheduled an appointment to watch practice last night. DD did well but the female coach was harping on everyone. Ladies no talking, ladies focus, ladies stop xyz. No wonder DD says she just yells at everyone.
186momx, Ugh - like, I just want to tell them - unless you have trained Simone Biles or the like - chill out. You signed up to coach little kids, if you don't enjoy being around little kids and little kid antics - go coach at the college level or something. I swear being around the gym just got to be soul sucking for all of us. No one was having fun anymore! Glad you daughter did well though! It's so fun seeing them improve!
A bit of a rant. A really good friend of ours wanted info about swim team. So I sent it to her because she wants her daughter to have a way to get exercise year round. We made specific plans to meet tonight and drive over to the try out together. She’s flakey so I texted her just now to ensure we are going. Welllll, she doesn’t know. Do we want to commit to that? How many times a week is it? She needs to text her hubs (I’m sure to make sure it doesn’t conflict with tennis). Good lord. Make up your melon.