She Caused Her 10-Year-Old Daughter’s Cheer Team To Lose For One Important Reason But Now She’s Asking The Internet If She Shouldn’t Have Done This
A mom admits that she caused her 10-year-old daughter’s cheer team to lose a competition for one very important reason, but now she’s asking the internet if she shouldn’t have done this.
“So my daughter(10F) is a very gifted cheerleader. She can do skills meant for much older girls,” this mom started out by saying.
“She’s a flyer at our local cheer/gymnastics gym. She also has a very severe medical condition. I’ve told her coach that if she gets sick or faints during practice she has to call me.”
Unfortunately, her daughter’s coach seems to believe that if one of the children passes out or gets sick, it means they’re working hard.
The coach never thinks this is a big deal at all, which is certainly worrisome. While this mom doesn’t agree with how the coach views this, she made it very clear to her that her daughter is not like the other children at the gym due to the condition she has.
Last week during one of the practices, her daughter threw up. The coach knew about it and never called her.
Instead, she chose to handle it by having her daughter drink water and continue the practice.
Her daughter did reveal this when she got picked up, so she rushed her to a nearby children’s hospital to make sure she was alright.
Thankfully, her daughter was, but she was furious.
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“I called her coach who basically told me she has a lot of kids and can’t cater to all their individual needs and that my daughter didn’t seem sick so it wasn’t a big deal,” she said.
“I was really upset that she didn’t care at all. I might have forgiven her if it was just a mistake and she forgot but this could’ve put my daughter in real danger and the coach didn’t show any signs of remorse for her actions or willingness to call me next time.”
She asked her daughter if it would be alright to find a different cheer team to join, and since her daughter doesn’t feel close to the other girls at her current gym, she agreed to move.
She then found a team that needed a flyer, so her daughter tried out for the spot and got it.
Next, she called up her daughter’s coach and explained she would be quitting.
The coach lost is on her and insisted they needed her to win their next competition because the other girls on her daughter’s team can’t do the same things.
Her reply was that the coach should have considered that before refusing to call her when her daughter had thrown up.
She confided in her sister about all this, and her sister thinks it was kind of a jerk move to have her daughter quit when the competition was only a week and a half away.
Her sister told her she should have quit the team after the competition…
…But this mom says the week leading up to it the girls have to practice 6 hours every day.
She doesn’t feel comfortable leaving her daughter with the coach for that much time every day, and she can’t just sit in the lobby to monitor things.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“This is the coach having to face consequences for her actions. She is clearly an “all about me” type, who does what she wants, treats the kids poorly, ignores the parents, and has no empathy.”
“She is working with children for HOURS a day under hard & exhausting circumstances, and she can’t be bothered to know if they have a health issue or call a parent when a child gets physically ill?”
“She’s horrible. Actions have consequences, and it sounds like the coach is not used to having to deal with them.”
“Your daughter’s health is top priority. However, in my experience, most of the coaches weren’t medically trained and on the younger side. I wouldn’t trust them to make a medical decision for my kid.”
“The coach made her team lose. This “coach” put your child’s health in jeopardy. There is simply no excuse for such behavior. You owe her nothing. This is entirely her own doing.”
“If your daughter was such an essential member on the team then the coach should have had no problem remembering her special medical condition to make sure she was staying healthy. You’re doing your motherly duty to keep your daughter safe and well.”
“I was a competitive gymnast and the longest practices we had before a competition was 4 hours but we got a half-hour break in the middle plus any little breaks we needed.”
“It wasn’t even 4 hours every day, just 4 hours 2 days before so we had the day off the day before the comp and could rest so we didn’t get hurt! 6 hours every day is seriously dangerous.”
“Even without a medical condition, the coach’s perspective on throwing up and passing out is dangerous. You did the right thing getting your daughter out of there.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say to her here.
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