Selecting A Gymnastics Tutor For The Kids

At the start of our discussion, we have a situation where you are considering getting a gymnastics tutor for your kids. Several factors could be motivating you in this direction. It could be that you have noticed emerging ‘couch potato' tendencies in your kids, and you are keen on ensuring that they don't progress into a full blown case of the ‘couch potato syndrome.' So you want to get your kids active, and you figure that putting them into gymnastics is the way to go. Or, it could be that your kids are reasonably physically active, only that the sorts of activities they are involved in are of a ‘kiddy' nature. That is alright, but you want to put them into a physical activity program they can carry with them into the adulthood. So you put them into gymnastics, which fits that profile. And then again, your desire to put your kid(s) into gymnastics could be as a result of a recommendation for you to do so, that is, to get your kid more physically active, either by a doctor or an educator.

You will come to appreciate that the gymnastics tutor you select for your kid is likely to have an impact, a very significant one, on how successfully the kid turn gets inducted to gymnastics. It is also likely to have an impact in terms of whether the kid actually develops a lifelong love for gymnastics, or whether he ends up doing it just for the sake of pleasing you, abandoning it at the very first chance that opens up for him or her to do so.

Now there are numerous specific features that would go into the making of an ideal tutor of gymnastics for kids. But, in a nutshell, we can say that the ideal gymnastics tutor for kids would be one who enjoys working with kids, and one who is knowledgeable in working with kids.

Let's start with the aspect of enjoying working with kids. The implications would be that such a tutor is likely to have, for starters, the patience required to work with kids. On the other hand, a tutor who prefers working with adults, but how is forced to work with kids is likely to project resentment onto the kids. Such a tutor will find it hard to cope with the relative slowness with which kids learn some concepts. He is likely to show his impatience and the kids, being whom they tend to be, are likely to show even more recalcitrance - this time deliberately - upon sensing his impatience. The end result would be constant frictions, making learning an unpleasant experience. And out of all that, it shouldn't surprise you when kids develop a (sometimes lifelong) negative attitude to the said gymnastics.

Turning to the aspect of knowing how to work with kids, the idea would be to get a gymnastics tutor who knows how to get kids to do things, a tutor who is kind (kids like kind people), a tutor who knows how to inspire rather than push. That would also be a tutor who knows how to deal with various types of kids. This would be a tutor who is cognizant of the fact that different kids have different levels of (physiological and psychological) motivation towards physical activity, and that the objective is to get each kid decently active. Ideally, this would be a tutor with a proven track record of successfully teaching gymnastics to kids.



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