Posts Tagged ‘Gymnastics’
What you get for your investment
We will be in polite company, visiting, or with new friends at a party and someone will say it. The response usually gets my wife’s eyes to roll and the person asking to get an avalanche of “more than you wanted to know” soapbox speech from me. What do they say? Usually it starts with…
Read MorePride
Letter to my Level 7, 8 and 9 parents: For those of you who didn’t know, our Level 8 team: Lexi A, Briana S, Chelsea G, Kendra N. and Maddy M. won. At the St. Jude benefit meet they won the first place team award which rewarded them with an enormous trophy AND a $250…
Read MoreMy New Years Resolve
Every year we set our goals and make New Years Resolutions. I usually vow to quit smoking (I am a non-smoker) so my success rate is 100% every year.Recently I wrote about goal setting and we just went through our annual goal setting project with my team girls. So maybe I have goals and direction…
Read MoreSearching for “it”
Wake up call: At a soccer game with freezing rain, not that the weather is important to the story, but I wanted to point out that it never rains or freezes in the gym “OK Owen (my son) go out there and go for it, you can do it.” He runs out to join the team…
Read MoreWorking for the Holidays
As I was driving to the gym the other night I had an interesting conversation with my 5 year old son, Owen. I thought it summarized many of the issues I have with the commercialization of the holidays; the barrage of commercials that make you feel that you are less if you don’t have more, the…
Read MoreGymfinity Community Service
About 6 months ago, I met with our team parents about hosting our annual meet. Every year we have a different theme to unify the whole meet and decorate. As I sat with the parents that night someone suggested a food drive as a theme, and someone else said it could tie in with a…
Read MoreCoaches Talking about China Vs. the U.S.
I recently got a very interesting e-mail from a blog friend that compares China’s to the Canadian system (He’s Canadian). I found his observations, provided from another friend, were very interesting; so I sent them to all of Gymfinity’s team coaches. One coach responded. She is an amazing student of the sport and her knowledge about…
Read MoreGymfinity’s Home Meet Rocks
This weekend we hosted the “With A Star On Top” gymnastics invitational. We thought it would be a small meet but it turned into a meet of over 350 gymnasts with almost 1000 spectators. Big. Our team parents group was amazing. This meet was organized and operated by parents and it went off without a…
Read MoreProof: tough love is a good thing
A recent study shows that the principles of “tough love” lead kids to be more successful throughout life. The study done by a parenting “think tank” says that a balance of warmth and discipline improves social skills more than a laissez-faire, authoritarian or disengaged upbringing. We’ve said it (and lived it) for years, but finally there…
Read MoreThe People with your kids
Along with the “boy he got lucky on the weather today” comments the halls were flooded with the conversations about why Mr. Brunner was up there. When asked me I said “because he believes in you kids.” I applaud his dedication and his daring, I give him a lot of respect for following through; that’s a lesson to…
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