I honestly love this whole post as my mother did not care in the slightest from year 1 right through to year 12. She just turned up because she was the one driving me, supported me while I was on and then spent the rest of the day on her phone or going to the shopping malls in the city where the competition was (same venues for the whole of my cheer career so she became very accustomed to the "cheer competition shop-a-thon". I will say that the cheer dad is the best. My dad turned into a year 5 cheer mom straight off the bat as he not only brought his own booze to comps, but managed to acquire alcohol in the venue from cheer parents of other gyms in the process. He was definitely favourite parent where the cheer competition was concerned :cheering::cheering::cheering: