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"Your coach had a baby and isn't married"
thats amazing :jawdrop:i would have completly broke down by this point<------- my CP decided to become a male cheerleader when he started the 6th grade (among the general transition to middle school, let's add THIS :)
He's in 8th grade now. He gets bullied every single day....with every single name-calling, male cheerleader taunt you can possibly imagine. He's heard them all. He doesn't cheer for school (our school cheer programs here are not high caliber - they don't stunt/tumble in middle school at all and there's not much of it in high school because of that) so he's allstar with his sister.
About every 5-6 weeks it will get to the point where he gets frustrated. But, he has a phenomenal family in our allstar gym that wraps him in all the support he needs (including several team mates that attend his school and will let their displeasure be known if people mess with him) but on the whole, he just ignores it, goes to the gym and does what he loves. In 2 years he's gone from negative tumbling (i'm not sure how to even classify the first "skill" he ever "threw"). He's on a Jr. co-ed 3 now with 2 bhs to a tuck, has a standing tuck now, a gorgeous layout on the tumble trak (hasn't tried it on the floor yet) and can single base stunt to extension (from a step in) any 70lb (or less) flyer in the gym.
And he's accomplished all that while growing 9 inches in the course of about 18 months. I think he started at about 95 pounds and 5 foot 1 or so. He's now 5-10 and 146 pounds.
That's pretty much all the personal self-esteem he needs to withstand the obnoxious types at his middle school :D
5-10 and in 8th grade?! :jawdrop: Oh man he's going to be tall unless that was the end of his growing.<------- my CP decided to become a male cheerleader when he started the 6th grade (among the general transition to middle school, let's add THIS :)
He's in 8th grade now. He gets bullied every single day....with every single name-calling, male cheerleader taunt you can possibly imagine. He's heard them all. He doesn't cheer for school (our school cheer programs here are not high caliber - they don't stunt/tumble in middle school at all and there's not much of it in high school because of that) so he's allstar with his sister.
About every 5-6 weeks it will get to the point where he gets frustrated. But, he has a phenomenal family in our allstar gym that wraps him in all the support he needs (including several team mates that attend his school and will let their displeasure be known if people mess with him) but on the whole, he just ignores it, goes to the gym and does what he loves. In 2 years he's gone from negative tumbling (i'm not sure how to even classify the first "skill" he ever "threw"). He's on a Jr. co-ed 3 now with 2 bhs to a tuck, has a standing tuck now, a gorgeous layout on the tumble trak (hasn't tried it on the floor yet) and can single base stunt to extension (from a step in) any 70lb (or less) flyer in the gym.
And he's accomplished all that while growing 9 inches in the course of about 18 months. I think he started at about 95 pounds and 5 foot 1 or so. He's now 5-10 and 146 pounds.
That's pretty much all the personal self-esteem he needs to withstand the obnoxious types at his middle school :D
I know he's mine so I'm totally biased, but he's a pretty amazing kid. He is focused on what he wants - which is an appointment to the US Air Force Academy so he's 13 - has 10 hours logged so far, recently ranked up to Cadet Master Sergeant in the Civil Air Patrol and was actually deployed to the NC coast for a week in late August because of his multiple emergency services and disaster relief certifications. He was gone for a week on emergency services and disaster relief from Hurricane Irene. He got his official commendation from NC Wing CAP this past week. He's just as fiercely committed to cheer because he wants to cheer for the Air Force Academy. He has some nerves of steel and the desire to serve his country as a fighter pilot - but for as much as he's got all that - the "gay queerleader" WILL get to him far more (I think) than he vocalizes. He's just a great kid and I couldn't be more proud of his choice to cheer, or to follow in the family footsteps and give his life to military service :)thats amazing :jawdrop:i would have completly broke down by this point
I know right! I'm only 5-9, he literally passed me in a weekend. He went to bed Thursday night, I didn't see him again until Saturday night (I had to supervise a football game Friday and he went to Civil Air Patrol ES training on Saturday) so when we caught back up....he was taller than me. No. Lie. His dad (my hubby) is a 6-4 offensive lineman type, the doctor who delivered him said he'd be taller than dad but lean as a beanpole. So far - she's right on the money. He's not done growing by a long shot based on how he's eating and always complaining about his joints!5-10 and in 8th grade?! :jawdrop: Oh man he's going to be tall unless that was the end of his growing.