Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
Pride
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 MoreWhat the heck is PKFR anyway?
Over the last few weeks Gymfinity has rolled out, pardon the pun, it’s latest program: PKFR. We have opened the door to this new kind of program, an organized program that you can’t find anywhere else in Wisconsin. It’s ParKour/Free Running. But what is it? My easiest explanation is to say that if gymnastics and running…
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 MoreSeek true holiday moments and “see ya next year”
This may be the last post of the year, since the gym is closed for 2 weeks and I will be in only sporadically to do office work and some maintainance. How it would be a holiday miracle if I could actually take 2 weeks off. But I am not complaining; I love my job…
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 MoreGREAT JOB at STATE
Our compulsory teams and coaches return from Milwaukee and the State Championship 2009. At the time of posting, my level 3 results are not available online, but all results are available at the host gym, Altius Gymnastics, web site by clicking here. For our Level 4′ Top 1o’s: Jamie F. 10th Bars, Hannah B. 10th…
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…
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