You know you’re really a gymnastics PARENT when…
* Volunteering for any bingo event together means date night!
* The fridge at the gym has more food in it for your kids than at home.
* Most of your kids’ photos are of them in gym suits, on a beam, or doing a floor routine.
* Your kids sometimes call their coaches “Mom” or “Dad.”
* You have more water bottles, hair doomahickeys, and gym bags in every vehicle just in case!
* You find an odd assortment of hair clips, elastics, and scrunchies in bizarre places throughout your house.
* Your diet consists of any fundraising product offered by your club.
* Laundry priority is always given to gym clothes.
* Family holidays generally involve a competition somewhere cold and to get there you usually have to travel in blizzard conditions.
* You ensure that there is always a box of Kleenex in your vehicle for those after-conditioning tears on the trip home.
* You have holes in your walls or broken furniture from tumbling attempts that didn’t go so well.
* A coach quietly asks for a parent meeting, and you just know this isn’t a good sign.
* You need to take out a second mortgage to pay for the new competitive track suits.
* Your child tells you that a mere 500 V-Snaps (daily) would help get rid of that flabby stomach…and you secretly hope that these are a new kind of cookie.
* There is more chalk brought into your house than dust.
* You play rock-paper-scissors to see which one gets to pick up the kids from the gym for the twelfth time that week….you lose again.
* When it’s back to school time you buy extra lunch boxes…one for school and one for the gym.
* You’ve been asked by the coach to stretch out your kid’s ________ (pick one: shoulders, arms, legs, back) and you are supposed to do this daily.
* More household money is spent on Band-Aids, A-535 muscle ointment, and hairspray than any other item.
* You have watched the gymnastics movie Stick It too many times to count!
Written by Michelle Pisoni
Thanks Michelle, we got some good giggles from this!
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