I must be doing *something* right
I haven't mentioned a bunch about it lately, but my oldest, the 9yo, she's a gymnast. She and her four teammates (all 8 or 9yo) started competing this year. As expected some of the girls are better at certain skills than others. And of course, I'd be remiss to add that there is one girl (we'll call her Rose) who is just plain awesome. She has the natural talent, the body type, and the drive to work hard and be the best. At the last meet I was surprised that my 9yo got a higher score on the vault than Rose - because usually Rose has her chit together and kicks butt. Anyway. In the last month SmartyPants has come home from practice a couple of times saying that Rose and "Beth" have been talking about "Indy" and saying how she should just quit the team because she's not as good, and Indy is just going to hurt the team when competition start back up in the fall, etc. In other words, being really catty. SmartyPants was telling me about al...