What would you recommend.
So I have a DD who will be 9 soon. She plays an instrument at school and at a music school for 3 hours on Saturday and she’s very good at it. She likes it as well and also does 30 mins of swimming per week.
She has been doing gymnastics for almost 4 years now (goes to training for 8 hours a week, more during competition season) but myself and dad thinks it’s getting out of hand now. She loves going and has lots of friends however since competitions started after covid, she has been to 4 (2 county and 2 regional) but apart from the second competition when she came second with her group, she has always had a low grade in her individual routines and not come home with medals which is getting her down. She cries for days, we ask if she wants to stop but she refuses.
We don’t care about medals, etc but I care about how this is making her feel. It’s almost like she feels like an imposter, this is getting me down as well but she just does not want to quit, mostly because of the friends she has made as she’s also in a competitive group there.
I feel if you’re committing an average of 10 hrs a week to something, at that age, it shouldn’t be something that’ll affect you negatively. We’ve decided that we’ll pull the plug on it at the end of this term but she’s very athletic and competitive, we can’t just take her out and not find her something else (though ideally, I want something that does not require that much time commitment), sorry this has turned out to be long but what sport will you recommend.