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I am putting together a workshop on proper nutrition and young athletes and wanted to pick your brains a little bit! The focus will be the importance proper nutrition is to young growing athletes and how to give them a competitive edge with a solid nutritional plan. I will not be selling anything, it is an educational workshop for athletes and their parents.
So if you can answer any of the questions below, with regards to feeding your athlete I would greatly appreciate the feedback!
What is the hardest part about your kids schedule?
How does nutrition factor into your kids routine?
Do you feel confident that you are giving your kid the right fuel?
Do you worry about how much sleep or down time is enough for your kid?
What is your biggest worry with your young athlete?
Any and all thoughts are welcome! Thank you :-)
1. Fitting in proper meals!
2. We do our best. She has recently really stepped up her training, so we're paying more attention and making energy bites and post-workout protein shakes.
3. Sort of. It can be difficult with the odd meal times.
4. A little bit, but homeschooling really helps her be able to get in enough sleep and downtime. If she wasn't homeschooled, this would be a huge concern.
5. Injury. She's been extremely healthy so far, but with gymnastics, it's really just a matter of time.
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I looked at the samples and chose. Sylvia actually completed both 2 and 3 in one year, so both girls use it a grade level ahead. I will use it all the way through the 8th grade book.
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Middle school is a new concept for me. When I was in school, there was K-6, 7-9 jr. high, and 10-12 high school. Then when I moved, high school was the full 9-12, jr. high just 7-8.
So middle school is kind of fuzzy for me, and I can't make 7-8 fit in there in my head. I would think 5-6 for middle school, 7-8 for jr. high, and 9-12 for high school.
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Thank you for the feedback! I definitely want to wait as long as possible to introduce the calculator, so if it's not necessary, that's good.
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Sorry, Brandy. If you want the worst mother of the year award, you're going to have to do better than that! :laugh:
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Like Hoppy said, 9 is not too old for boys, since male gymnasts peak later than women. We joke that there is no offseason in gymnastics. Other sports have states - see you next year! Gymnasts have states - see you tomorrow!
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Tumbling is more stunts - jumps, back handsprings, back tucks, etc. Think competitive cheer, only without the makeup and costumes.
Gymnastics is all four events - bars, beam, floor, vault. You tumble on floor, but there are other requirements as well.
My personal opinion/experience is that form is more important in gymnastics, less so in tumbling/cheer.
I do not have personal experience with competitive tumbling, but I have a bit of experience with the competitive gymnastics (sometimes more than I wish I did... oy...).
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As far as the down-ratings go, i don't care if it's logical, it's rude and it's petty and doesn't reflect at all well on those who do it.
Though I have fundamental disagreements with many here, I can wholeheartedly agree with this.
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Building on what Cat said about FB venting... it's like when homeschoolers vent. We sure don't want anyone saying, "Just put your kids in school!" We're allowed to have a less than perfect day, and so are sports/theater/whatever parents.
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If you're using Saxon 8/7 or above, did you buy a scientific calculator? If you waited, when did you buy it? What did you get (something reasonable, hopefully)?
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All I remember from the season my son played baseball was that for half the games, the temperature was about 113 degrees and my dd would hide under the bleachers, seeking some relief from the scorching sun, and the other half of the games were canceled due to rain. It was truly miserable. I told my son he could play baseball again when he was old enough to be dropped off. Luckily he started playing hockey that fall and never looked back. :D
LOL! I love baseball, and when Rebecca was about 4, I put her on a little t-ball team. She put that glove on, squatted down, and played in the dirt. Meanwhile, I had a 2 year old Sylvia, scorching heat or freezing cold, uncomfortable metal bleachers, and unfriendly parents. We ended up quitting after her second season because I hated it! Give me a nice, climate-controlled sport any day!
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Mine just use what we have. I would have her use a potholder on both hands for a while though. Sylvia burned her fingers Christmas Eve getting cookies out of the oven. She was using one hand, and the pan tipped a bit. She unconsciously reached out to stop it, and she got a bit of a burn.
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Now I'm curious what effect spending so much time on an activity during childhood has on a person.
I linked to a study several posts back about sports and creativity. But now I'm curious if anyone has any studies on the subject? The only ones I know about are the various advantages found for piano students, which isn't quite what we are talking about here.
I imagine that for a child to devote 20 + hours a week to a single sport or activity will have an effect vs. a child that does a variety of scheduled things, or no scheduled things. But I'm not sure what that would be.
Again, that would vary widely depending on the kid, the parents, etc. My kid adores spending that much time in the gym. She doesn't care that it's her only extracurricular. Another kid might want to dabble broadly. Parents might push one way or another. Everyone is different.
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I also want to add this. I firmly believe that God is the one who gave Rebecca her talent. So it also honors Him to let her use it.
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This is not my child, but yes, just like my child.
Try to say no. lol
This would so be Rebecca too. Not as bad, but she had 3 teeth pulled and looked at me like I was the crazy one when I told her she could miss gymnastics that day.
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We had to pull the plug on gymnastics a long time ago. It was not right for our family financially, socially or spiritually. In order to continue we would have had to give it a priority that would have upset other priorities that we needed to have for our family. And yet it was really really hard to do. It meant that dd was leaving some really good friends because other girls in that sport really did not have time to pursue any close relationships outside of the sport. (They tried but it just wasn't sustainable.) It meant that my natural gymnast couldn't do what she loved. Her teacher was in tears when she left and they worked out a really good deal for her to stay on the team but even then it wasn't workable for us. I know other gym moms who work a part-time job on top of fundraisers just to pay for the sport. With my chronic illness I couldn't do that. Anyway. . . our personal reasons aren't really the point of me posting here. The point is that ultimately keeping our priorities right for our family has been a good thing. We did have a rough couple of years emotionally after leaving the sport but now both dd and I are fine. And dd has discovered that she's also a natural runner. And running is much less expensive and much more flexible and fits with our family's priorities.
Jean, I'm glad your DD has discovered another natural talent. :grouphug:
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Well, surely we are one of the families you are ranting about. We do travel trips and yes, spend hundreds, if not thousands on our kids' sports. And yes, we compete on Sundays as well. I would challenge your assumption that it is just sports. We know families spending the equivalent amount of money and time on dance or music. Marching band is a big one.
We do it because we have a couple of kids involved that are hugely talented. Yes, scholarships are few and far between, but I could not look myself in the mirror if I did not do what I could for my child's talent and passion. These kids were given to me for a short time with talents that are God-given and I have a responsibility to that.
I can't speak for all parents, but that is why we do what we do. And I guess I don't really care if other people think it is foolish, shortsighted or ridiculous.
ITA. It's not like I went looking for something to spend big money and time on. I was given a natural gymnast. Gymnastics is funny - you can only do so much without being competitive. If I were to pull Rebecca off team, she basically couldn't do gymnastics, because all of the rec classes top out somewhere around back handsprings. By this point, she could probably co-teach a rec class. But I don't know if I could live with myself if we didn't let her follow her talents. So, she is at the gym 18 hours a week, 5 days a week. We travel 2-3 hours five times a year for meets. We pay tuition, booster club dues, meet fees, and buy gear. That's just where we are.
I honestly don't care what other parents do or don't do, or what they think of what we do.
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We have also eaten Chinese food with chopsticks and a couple of other things. Making paper was in SOTW 1, and then in MFW ECC, and it's back in SOTW 2... NO MORE!!
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Rebecca is just that Type A, firstborn personality. She's harder on herself than we are on her. This kid will groan and roll her eyes over a 96%. She is deadly serious about her gymnastics training too. She is there to WORK, not make friends or mess around. The gym could collapse around her and she'd still be trying to nail her BHSBHS on beam. I'd say maybe around 9 is when she started to pull it together all-around. She'll be 12 in a month.
Sylvia is less so. She's the baby of the family and fills that role quite nicely, TYVM. She has disastrously sloppy handwriting and I swear, every day I remind her to write more neatly and it has yet to sink in. :banghead: She is very good about getting out and getting started with school, and she will always complete everything in a timely manner, but she's a lot less hard on herself and I don't think she has a competitive bone in her body. She can be extremely laid-back and just, "Whatever." She'll be 10 in a month.
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I only have 2, so it's not that bad. They used different things until they were in 1st and 3rd grades, and since 3rd and 5th, they've been very independent, so I haven't run into problems yet.
Now Sylvia will repeat a couple of years of MFW and I'll have to go through the high school cycle twice very closely together, so talk to me after I've graduated Rebecca.
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Make paper when we study China
Make a volcano
Float an egg in salt water
:willy_nilly:
What have you gotten sick of?
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I'll be cautious and say, not as of yet. Yes, sometimes I get to that point where I'm like, "OKAY! Time to have next week off." But I honestly have never actually wanted to put the girls on the bus. I consider myself lucky. I have homeschooled from the beginning, so we're in year 7.
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Yes, exactly! I love everything we're using, so it's just buying the next level, but that means my shopping is done, it's just a matter of clicking that BUY button!
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I am so sorry. I know what you're going through - my husband seems like he's constantly looking for a job. We're here anytime. :grouphug:
Our homeschooling is officially over.
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Congratulations to you both!!