Hello Everyone,
I’m completely new to the world of figure skating and learning this wonderful, and sometimes strange, world. It’s been amazing for the most part.
My two daughters and I began skating about 6 months ago just for FUN and we LOVE it! My daughters are 10 and 3 and both are doing very good. We all started with group lessons and now my oldest and I are up to three private lessons a week with our coach. Let’s call her Amy.
My youngest daughter (age 3) is very outgoing and made great friends with another coach at our rink. Given there immediate bond, they started private lessons, just 15 minutes, once a week. My little girl just loves the lessons and her coach and has improved tremendously from the 1 on 1 time. And she just loves this kind coaches attention!
We have been having this schedule for 3 months. In my eyes everything was going perfect. My oldest daughter and I love our coach Amy and my youngest loves her other coach. Perfect, right?
Well, at our last lessons, Amy pulls me aside with the most solemn look on her face and tells me, that she is not on a team with the coach of my young daughter and is not comfortable with my girl taking lessons from her! I was so in shock I didn’t even know how to respond, it was so bizarre! I just said something like, “Okay... we can probably take care of that.” But I felt super uncomfortable.
Fist off, Amy is not even the coach of my young daughter at all. Secondly,my young daughter and her coach have a great friendship and it’s all in good fun. No competitions or anything, just FUN. Am I just supposed to stop there lessons? How awkward would that be? And is it what’s best for my daughter? I don’t think so. I’m in a strange position here.
My question really is why do you think that Amy feels this way? I’m sure there must be a good reason that I’m not seeing here… As I said we are new to the world of figure skating! I have thought of a few options but nothing quite makes sense.
I do plan to talk more about this with Amy at our next lesson to gain some clarity but just wanted to reach out here for a little advice and perspective first.
Thank you so much in advance for any insights. I very much appreciate it!
I’m completely new to the world of figure skating and learning this wonderful, and sometimes strange, world. It’s been amazing for the most part.
My two daughters and I began skating about 6 months ago just for FUN and we LOVE it! My daughters are 10 and 3 and both are doing very good. We all started with group lessons and now my oldest and I are up to three private lessons a week with our coach. Let’s call her Amy.
My youngest daughter (age 3) is very outgoing and made great friends with another coach at our rink. Given there immediate bond, they started private lessons, just 15 minutes, once a week. My little girl just loves the lessons and her coach and has improved tremendously from the 1 on 1 time. And she just loves this kind coaches attention!
We have been having this schedule for 3 months. In my eyes everything was going perfect. My oldest daughter and I love our coach Amy and my youngest loves her other coach. Perfect, right?
Well, at our last lessons, Amy pulls me aside with the most solemn look on her face and tells me, that she is not on a team with the coach of my young daughter and is not comfortable with my girl taking lessons from her! I was so in shock I didn’t even know how to respond, it was so bizarre! I just said something like, “Okay... we can probably take care of that.” But I felt super uncomfortable.
Fist off, Amy is not even the coach of my young daughter at all. Secondly,my young daughter and her coach have a great friendship and it’s all in good fun. No competitions or anything, just FUN. Am I just supposed to stop there lessons? How awkward would that be? And is it what’s best for my daughter? I don’t think so. I’m in a strange position here.
My question really is why do you think that Amy feels this way? I’m sure there must be a good reason that I’m not seeing here… As I said we are new to the world of figure skating! I have thought of a few options but nothing quite makes sense.
I do plan to talk more about this with Amy at our next lesson to gain some clarity but just wanted to reach out here for a little advice and perspective first.
Thank you so much in advance for any insights. I very much appreciate it!