On Fairfield County Mom: My Daughter Lost Her First Gymnastics Meet And I’ve Never Been Prouder

Read the full post here and find an excerpt below!

“Mom, I’m scared,” she’d said on the drive up. “I want to win so badly. What if I don’t?”

Her words had scared me too. Until this point, gymnastics had been about learning skills and getting stronger. But now, she would be judged, her results compared to others. 

I didn’t want this experience to hurt her confidence, to make her feel anything less than the accomplished, hard-working girl I knew she was.