All-Star I Just Wish He'd Put On The Cheer Dad Shirt Already...

[BuegeSmalls]

I was lucky. I only grew up with my dad and he basically sacrificed his whole middle age life for me. He was at every field hockey, swim, gymnastics meet. When I rode horses he would pay to ship me off to my over priced horse camp each summer. One time he actually got in trouble for being a SD at a field hockey game because he kept running along the sidelines yelling at the referee. From the time I was 9 until I graduated high school he didn't even go on one date.
My only complaint is when I was 12 I asked specifically for a cocker spaniel and he got me a chocolate lab...still bitter:p

Aww that's reminds me of when I did horseback riding. My dad took me to every lesson and watched no matter how cold or it was. Good times.

ETA: Sometimes my mom came but she usually got home later so he was always the one to take me. Sometimes my grandma would come to watch to because she loves horses.


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[xomckenzieee]

I am so blessed to have supportive parents and a family in general. I look at other people's parents who weren't at anything and how devastated they would be because no one was there to support them and I knew I was lucky because I usually had multiple people there to watch me. It was hard because my sister and I are only a year apart so sometimes they had to split time between our games/comps/concerts/etc. but we still had at least someone there.

I will say my dad forgot to pick my sister and I up once from daycare because he thought it was my mom's day to after work and he forgot they had switched. 21 years, and only once forgotten, not too shabby.

 

[Helen uk uni cheer]

My Parents support me but really dont like cheer and my mum hates comps because of the noise so now i just socialise with my team

 

[Cheer Dad]

Dammit, every time this thread pops up in my feed I think y'all are talking to me and forgetting it is a hat, not a shirt.

Carry on...


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[cupieqt]

RIP to one of the best cheer dads ever. A dad who came to comps and cheered on his kid, his kids teammates, the other teams and the coaches. A dad that never stuck his nose in the business of the coaches and a dad that always had an encouraging word for everyone. He was a big old goofball and his cp loved him dearly.

He will be very missed :(
Rest in peace Mr Eric


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[dawgshow]

RIP to one of the best cheer dads ever. A dad who came to comps and cheered on his kid, his kids teammates, the other teams and the coaches. A dad that never stuck his nose in the business of the coaches and a dad that always had an encouraging word for everyone. He was a big old goofball and his cp loved him dearly.

He will be very missed :(
Rest in peace Mr Eric


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:(


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[Cheer Dad]

RIP to one of the best cheer dads ever. A dad who came to comps and cheered on his kid, his kids teammates, the other teams and the coaches. A dad that never stuck his nose in the business of the coaches and a dad that always had an encouraging word for everyone. He was a big old goofball and his cp loved him dearly.

He will be very missed :(
Rest in peace Mr Eric


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Sorry for your gyms loss.


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[MaineStar234]

A World Cup dad of 3 CP's passed away yesterday on his birthday (I saw this from posts on twitter). People were saying that he was such a big supporter of all kids at the gym and there was a picture floating around of him playing the bag pipes for Twinkles at UCA. My prayers go out to both the family in the above post and this family for their losses. So sad.


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[Cheer Dad]

That is so sad.


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[DropAndRun]

I really cannot wrap my head around this conditional parenting nonsense. If my husband acted like some of you are describing I would take a baseball bat to his head. It never occurred to me to think "I wonder if he will be supportive of Droplets sport" because it never occurred to me that I married an ashhole who wouldn't be supportive about anything our children are passionate about.. Whether it's minecraft(kidding, although it's probably almost as important to cp as cheer) or cheer.

In my house you don't get to decide you don't like something and write off your family members activities because they don't interest you.

I think golf is horrible, but I try to make accommodations for my husband so he can play when he wants. I suck at baseball but love to watch my son because he loves the sport. We share a love of competitive swimming (although I do long course and he does that Michael Phelps stuff). My life revolves around driving to and from cheer even though I am the farthest thing from a cheerleader ever. Wait a minute.. I just realized no one in my house supports MY sport!! They all hate horseback riding no matter how much I try to convince them otherwise. We will have to work on that.

Anyway.. Even though they didn't choose the path I would have wanted for them sport wise, how can I (and their dad) not support them and want to be there for everything we can? They're our kids! We do do a lot of hubs and non-cp go in one direction, Droplet and I in another, but it's out of necessity. He has learned to do moderately acceptable cheer hair but I would never expect him to do comp hair and makeup because I think that would be scary.

 

[vannahlexis]

My dad was at the majority of my competitions, I wouldn't say he liked being there, but he went and wore a Montrose Cheerleading shirt that said "Savannah's Dad" on the back proudly.

One time (probs more than once lol) I remember my tumbling coach told me that our team won the comp and the team that was our top competitor had an OOB and some issues. They didn't count the OOB and we lost. I sat with my head on my dad's shoulder and cried until after awards were over lol it was awful, but I'm so happy he was there




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[SarahNVC]

I think my situation is a lot different a) because I'm older, 24 and b) because I live in Britain and cheer is a lot less common here

Both my parents have told me they were very confused when I told them I was joining cheer at university thinking it was something dancey and provocative

My dad called my uniforms 'outfits' and always asked 'where's the rest of it'

I think my mam kinda likes that I do cheer cos it's maybe something she would've done as a kid if she'd had the chance. But I love telling her about new skills I got or showing her videos as she is so scared of me getting injured, she's like 'no don't tell me that! OMG that's so dangerous' it's cute.

She did watch a lot of worlds with me this year which was sweet, and I think she's just happy that I get do much out of cheer.

My dad never came to any event I've been at, and I think my mam came to one. But as I'm older I think I prefer that as I can socialise with my team rather than worrying if my family are entertained/bored/lost haha

When I have kids tho they will cheer and I will document everything. As I've kinda had to do all that for myself through the years


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[Ren]

I think my situation is a lot different a) because I'm older, 24 and b) because I live in Britain and cheer is a lot less common here

Both my parents have told me they were very confused when I told them I was joining cheer at university thinking it was something dancey and provocative

My dad called my uniforms 'outfits' and always asked 'where's the rest of it'

I think my mam kinda likes that I do cheer cos it's maybe something she would've done as a kid if she'd had the chance. But I love telling her about new skills I got or showing her videos as she is so scared of me getting injured, she's like 'no don't tell me that! OMG that's so dangerous' it's cute.

She did watch a lot of worlds with me this year which was sweet, and I think she's just happy that I get do much out of cheer.

My dad never came to any event I've been at, and I think my mam came to one. But as I'm older I think I prefer that as I can socialise with my team rather than worrying if my family are entertained/bored/lost haha

When I have kids tho they will cheer and I will document everything. As I've kinda had to do all that for myself through the years


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We sound like the same person! Although I'm not entirely sure if my dad even knows I cheer tbh... My mum came to one comp, watched me and I think Birmingham Pussycats, then sat outside for the rest because it was far too noisy! And last time I showed her a video of my improving double downs she said she never wanted to see it again!
But I get it completely, it's not either of their "things". They both supported me 300% in my eventing/horse-riding (@DropAndRun ;)) when I was younger :)

 

[SarahNVC]

We sound like the same person! Although I'm not entirely sure if my dad even knows I cheer tbh... My mum came to one comp, watched me and I think Birmingham Pussycats, then sat outside for the rest because it was far too noisy! And last time I showed her a video of my improving double downs she said she never wanted to see it again!
But I get it completely, it's not either of their "things". They both supported me 300% in my eventing/horse-riding (@DropAndRun ;)) when I was younger :)

It's hard being a brit cheerleader!

To be fair my dad worked abroad so I'm sure the last thing he wanted to do once home is come to a comp haha

Yeah I like to show my mam fail videos of us even more than good runs as she's like nooooooooo!

Yeah I don't think anyone in my immediate family 'gets' cheer, tho my mam is getting a little better on the lingo and keeping track of when I'm at practice. Andddd my lil cousin started uni this year and she joined the squad there, I was so proud!




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[Helen uk uni cheer]

We sound like the same person! Although I'm not entirely sure if my dad even knows I cheer tbh... My mum came to one comp, watched me and I think Birmingham Pussycats, then sat outside for the rest because it was far too noisy! And last time I showed her a video of my improving double downs she said she never wanted to see it again!
But I get it completely, it's not either of their "things". They both supported me 300% in my eventing/horse-riding (@DropAndRun ;)) when I was younger :)

In all fairness my mum did the same thing at one competition which was my first ever comp I asked her to come and see what I do. she ended up leaving after an hour of complaining telling me it was too noisy and wished that I just did horseriding like I did a year ago. I was upset because she is normally the most supportive parent but hates cheer!