All-Star Csp Tweet: No More Travelling For Cea Teams.

[Cheer Dad]

He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a little over a year ago. It has been a challenge for him to adjust to this "new normal" for him and even more so for his father. Honestly my husband is so fearful that some medical catastrophe will strike his boy that if it were up to him I don't think he would even allow our son to drive himself to school. I would have been ok with my son taking a flight with one of my cheer mom friends from the gym...my husband was just not ok with him traveling without a parent.


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The medical thing is a big factor and very understandable if he isn't adjusting and learning how to take care of himself.

Is it safe to assume if the medical issue was not involved the travel restrictions would be eased?

Is that something you see if you are signed in on a computer? I've only ever used the app...


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If you 'select' your post, click more and then go to web view you can see the negative rating. Otherwise, as you have noticed, it does not show up in the app.


**What if gofundme included a double your money back performance clause?**

 

[Fiercecheermom]

I never add up a season and am a happier person for it. And in actuality I do not care for gofundme and on some cases may judge you for them. My comment to Bluecat was more of a joke than anything else


**What if gofundme included a double your money back performance clause?**

My husband is a much happier person when I don't discuss the total cost with him either Additionally, I agree with your opinion on "gofundme". I compare it to "begging" on the streets except the person has a larger audience AND is working even LESS for the money. I will say that I think it has it's place ie: charitable contributions/life threatening medical costs. Using it to fund cheerleading is unacceptable. Everyone has a financial threshold. It is up to each family to decide if they can afford their chosen program. Choosing a program outside of your "threshold" and then asking others to fund your choice is just unacceptable.

 

[ErinS]

My parents put my then 13 year old sister on a plane to Africa with out them (it was a field trip for school)


My parents have always been the type to "shove" us out of the nest and force independence on us. I remember being 9 and her sending me to bowling camp in a cab with my 11 year old sister because my dad was at work and she'd just had a baby and couldn't drive. Clearly it was imperative that I got to bowling camp....I don't know why I was in bowling camp. My poor childhood.


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[cheermomforever]

When my CPs team made Worlds for the first time, she went with a mom we traveled with regularly. They qualified so late I could not afford to go . She was a HS Freshmen. I don't think I would of sent her as a group with her team though but was comfortable friend taking her.

 

[mybabywantstotumble]

Is your son named bob james? Because if so he joined FB today solely to give you a dislike rating! Lol.

Either that or it's her husband.

 

[Tealxblack25]

As a fellow Maine resident, I have never heard anyone refer to it as State. I'm pretty sure my old all star teammates from NH called it States too, that's so weird to me that other people call it State. I watched Friday Night Lights too, and still never noticed it.


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Hello from NH!

 

[CharlotteASMom]

It's amazing how many things I've let my children do that I said I never, ever would. For me it hit around 14/15 when I realized they'd be leaving for college in a handful of years. Of course medical issues make that more complicated and stressful.

 

[Cheermom1969]

Is that something you see if you are signed in on a computer? I've only ever used the app...


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I think so. I was reading along and see you had a dislike rating so I clicked on it since I thought "wow, rude!" It was someone who just joined yesterday named bob james, a female no less.

 

[Cheermom1969]

He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a little over a year ago. It has been a challenge for him to adjust to this "new normal" for him and even more so for his father. Honestly my husband is so fearful that some medical catastrophe will strike his boy that if it were up to him I don't think he would even allow our son to drive himself to school. I would have been ok with my son taking a flight with one of my cheer mom friends from the gym...my husband was just not ok with him traveling without a parent.


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That is definitely understandable to me. I would have a hard time letting him out of my sight for a while, let alone getting on a plane. My 17 year old son has a friend with Type 1 but he was diagnosed when the boys were in middle school so the kid is well-versed in taking care of himself at this point.

 

[Cheermom1969]

My parents put my then 13 year old sister on a plane to Africa with out them (it was a field trip for school)


My parents have always been the type to "shove" us out of the nest and force independence on us. I remember being 9 and her sending me to bowling camp in a cab with my 11 year old sister because my dad was at work and she'd just had a baby and couldn't drive. Clearly it was imperative that I got to bowling camp....I don't know why I was in bowling camp. My poor childhood.


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I'll tell you why you went to bowling camp - empty house for your mom so she can take care of the newborn. lol
Although, I think I'd want the older kids around to fetch diapers and bottles for me.

 

[Bling it On]

I totally understand! To this day I am still FLOORED that my mother allowed me to fly from Tallahassee, Fl to Atlanta, GA to meet my grandparents "half-way" so they didn't have to drive all the way from Oak Ridge, TN. They (my grandparents) wanted me to fly the whole way, but my mom wouldn't let me switch planes- which was a requirement at the time to get to Knoxville (back then anyway!). I loved it! It was like a rollercoaster, lol.

Anyway, my mother had this crazy notion back then about Middle Eastern terrorists hijacking a plane ... the irony. I was 9 and it was 1986 when I flew.

In retrospect, especially knowing my mom, no freakin wonder!!-
In 1972 hijackers threatened to attack Oak Ridge, TN (in case anyone doesn't know there's a nuclear facility there....aka home of the first atomic bomb), even more specifically, threatened to fly the plane into their nuclear reactor.
Then in 1974 another Delta flight was hijacked in Atlanta in an apparent assassination attempt on President Nixon, and there continued to be several hijackings throughout the 70's and 80's...and wait for it, January of 1987 a plane was hijacked in the U.S. by Muslim who was intending to fly the plane into The White House. I had no idea at the time, being 10yrs old. Needless to say I wasn't allowed to fly on my own anymore.

Aside from plane hijackings, I'm actually more concerned to just let my child in any crowded place w/o constant adult supervision- and an airport is one of the worst considering how busy they are and how, for the most part, everyone's in a hurry. Easy to snatch a kid, cop a feel, etc. w/o anyone noticing.

I'm actually old enough to remember plane high jacking happening in the 1970's and 1980's. I knew someone who was headed for a vacation and their plane was high jacked to Cuba.
I am extremely fearful of my daughter being in crowded public places. The Friday night of Cheersport our plane landed late and I was rushing to get her to warmups however we couldn't find her team so I ended up handing her off to someone with a Cheersport shirt and a badge who said he would take her back and find the team. I walked around to B for the performance and got a call from a strange number and it was my daughter saying she was borrowing a security guards phone as hers had died and that the Cheersport employee had taken her to the large warm up area and left her but her team wasn't there so the security guard was walking her down a long hall but he couldn't find the team either. She said she was scared because there weren't any other people where she was and she wasn't sure where she was....and then the call cut out. I immediately tried to call the number back and there was no answer so I started texting the number but there was no response. I asked the closest security guard if he had a way of finding out who my daughter was with and where she was and he suggested I call 911 if she was missing. I texted the coaches but she wasn't with them and the team either. At this point it had been about 40 minutes since I initially handed her off to the Cheersport employee at hall C and I'm in B where the performance will take place and I'm frantic. I saw some other moms and started asking them if they had seen her anywhere but none had. At this point I finally get a message back from the number she had called from and I had texted stating that "they gave her to her father". Of course her father wasn't there so I was just hitting send on my phone to call 911 when one of my cheer mom friends walked up and said they found her walking through B looking for the team and showed her to the backstage warm up in B. At the same time I get a text from the coach saying that she is with them finally . Turns out that for the Friday night she should have been in B the whole time and evidently the Cheersport employee didn't realize that the teams performing Friday night were in B and not in the C hall warm up area.
That 50 minutes was the most frightened I've ever been in my entire life.


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[Cheermom1969]

I'm actually old enough to remember plane high jacking happening in the 1970's and 1980's. I knew someone who was headed for a vacation and their plane was high jacked to Cuba.
I am extremely fearful of my daughter being in crowded public places. The Friday night of Cheersport our plane landed late and I was rushing to get her to warmups however we couldn't find her team so I ended up handing her off to someone with a Cheersport shirt and a badge who said he would take her back and find the team. I walked around to B for the performance and got a call from a strange number and it was my daughter saying she was borrowing a security guards phone as hers had died and that the Cheersport employee had taken her to the large warm up area and left her but her team wasn't there so the security guard was walking her down a long hall but he couldn't find the team either. She said she was scared because there weren't any other people where she was and she wasn't sure where she was....and then the call cut out. I immediately tried to call the number back and there was no answer so I started texting the number but there was no response. I asked the closest security guard if he had a way of finding out who my daughter was with and where she was and he suggested I call 911 if she was missing. I texted the coaches but she wasn't with them and the team either. At this point it had been about 40 minutes since I initially handed her off to the Cheersport employee at hall C and I'm in B where the performance will take place and I'm frantic. I saw some other moms and started asking them if they had seen her anywhere but none had. At this point I finally get a message back from the number she had called from and I had texted stating that "they gave her to her father". Of course her father wasn't there so I was just hitting send on my phone to call 911 when one of my cheer mom friends walked up and said they found her walking through B looking for the team and showed her to the backstage warm up in B. At the same time I get a text from the coach saying that she is with them finally . Turns out that for the Friday night she should have been in B the whole time and evidently the Cheersport employee didn't realize that the teams performing Friday night were in B and not in the C hall warm up area.
That 50 minutes was the most frightened I've ever been in my entire life.


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Jesus! My heart is racing just reading this!! I would have lost my mind.

 

[Bling it On]

Jesus! My heart is racing just reading this!! I would have lost my mind.

You know I kept thinking about how the BTK killer used his job with the security company to gain access to the women he murdered and extrapolated that being a security guard at a huge cheer competition would be a perfect cover for some sicko wanting to grab a young girl.
I still don't know why the security guard texted me that he "gave her to her father". She told me she saw a glimpse of our gym owners husband and told the security guard that she saw him and the security guard then said ok and left. That's when she saw my cheer mom friend who ended up walking her over to were she was supposed to be.
I was so overwhelmed when I found out she was safe that I broke down for a few minutes.


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[Fiercecheermom]

I'm actually old enough to remember plane high jacking happening in the 1970's and 1980's. I knew someone who was headed for a vacation and their plane was high jacked to Cuba.
I am extremely fearful of my daughter being in crowded public places. The Friday night of Cheersport our plane landed late and I was rushing to get her to warmups however we couldn't find her team so I ended up handing her off to someone with a Cheersport shirt and a badge who said he would take her back and find the team. I walked around to B for the performance and got a call from a strange number and it was my daughter saying she was borrowing a security guards phone as hers had died and that the Cheersport employee had taken her to the large warm up area and left her but her team wasn't there so the security guard was walking her down a long hall but he couldn't find the team either. She said she was scared because there weren't any other people where she was and she wasn't sure where she was....and then the call cut out. I immediately tried to call the number back and there was no answer so I started texting the number but there was no response. I asked the closest security guard if he had a way of finding out who my daughter was with and where she was and he suggested I call 911 if she was missing. I texted the coaches but she wasn't with them and the team either. At this point it had been about 40 minutes since I initially handed her off to the Cheersport employee at hall C and I'm in B where the performance will take place and I'm frantic. I saw some other moms and started asking them if they had seen her anywhere but none had. At this point I finally get a message back from the number she had called from and I had texted stating that "they gave her to her father". Of course her father wasn't there so I was just hitting send on my phone to call 911 when one of my cheer mom friends walked up and said they found her walking through B looking for the team and showed her to the backstage warm up in B. At the same time I get a text from the coach saying that she is with them finally . Turns out that for the Friday night she should have been in B the whole time and evidently the Cheersport employee didn't realize that the teams performing Friday night were in B and not in the C hall warm up area.
That 50 minutes was the most frightened I've ever been in my entire life.


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My daughter is 16 and if I had gotten that call I would have felt EXACTLY like you did. I feel for you!!!!! Cheer comps can be scary places with ALL kinds of people attending. The only time we attended CS about 8 years ago, there was an issue of someone who had tried to force an athlete out of the venue and into his car. Luckily, the athlete was able to get away and was unharmed (physically). At that point, our team asked more parents to help supervise athletes and keep them together. It was the first time I had encountered this type of thing at a comp, but definitely not the last.

 

[mamabear]

My daughter is 16 and if I had gotten that call I would have felt EXACTLY like you did. I feel for you!!!!! Cheer comps can be scary places with ALL kinds of people attending. The only time we attended CS about 8 years ago, there was an issue of someone who had tried to force an athlete out of the venue and into his car. Luckily, the athlete was able to get away and was unharmed (physically). At that point, our team asked more parents to help supervise athletes and keep them together. It was the first time I had encountered this type of thing at a comp, but definitely not the last.

I never heard this! Yikes.

@Bling it On - that must have been insanely scary.