All-Star Confessions Of A Cheermom

My low point was at a competition in Oklahoma City. The CP had been running a fever of 103 for a week prior to the comp and had literally lost 10 pounds and was starting to resemble a refugee camp victim. We (yes the husband participated in this madness) drove CP from Fort Worth to the OKC checked into the hotel and took her to the team practice. She competed Day 1 and fell in her stunt. Coach call the hotel room and said that CP did not need to come to team practice that day due to other families thinking CP had the plague at that point. Day 2 I was literally in a fetal position in the bathroom stall in the convention center when CP performed. Husband came down to the bathroom after the performance and had a intervention with me! He pointed out our son had fumbled the football, missed free throws and had struck out many times in baseball and I was able to watch all these moments without needing a shot of wine to watch. WOW what perspective and slapped me back into reality.

BTW, she was nine and on youth 2! They won the comp and I got my sanity back. Also, she was diagnosed with some fancy flu the following Monday....what a proud parenting moment that was in the doctor's office when we admitted what we had done.

f1g1r1 said:

Great thread. My daughter has been out of cheer for 4 years now. During her last year it became my goal to not pay an entrance fee at any competition. I would walk in with a group of people as all of them are holding up the wristbands and I would just hold up an empty wrist and walk right in. I got caught once, turned around and went in another door and a different guard never said a word. I suggest you try it, worst case you turn around and go purchase a band. Also find parents with younger kids who compete in the mornings. You can offer them 1/2 price for the wrist band as they are leaving to go home.

Don't know if he still does it since his daughter is in college, but does a certain dad still come prepared with the adult Gummi bears?

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I got smart a little late over the weekend as I had already bought my 2 day pass. Our meet time was 5:00 and I noticed an overflowing trash can as I was parking and thought I would give it a check, one was laying right by the trash can. I scooped it up without missing a step.

I will get my cheer mom card revoked for this one.

Keep in mind I'm a nurse.

My daughter fell in tumbling class while learning a toe back. She fell on the back of her hand. She cried, we iced it, yada yada.

We went to WSF the next week. This was the year that a friend was killed in a car accident from our gym. My daughter was filling in for the daughter of that mom on J3, so it was extremely important to her to compete on that team.

Saturday my daughter competed both routines. She had no problems. When she woke up Sunday her hand was swollen, but it didn't hurt. I said hmm, if it doesn't bother you, go for it. She competed on J3 and came to me crying that her hand hurt. She was supposed to go straight back to her S3 warm ups. I had Motrin in my bag but nothing to drink so I had my baby dry swallow two Motrin and I sent her back to warmups. I said, tell your coach you can't tumble. Parents weren't allowed back into warmups so I figured she would tell her coach.

They come out to perform, I'm watching her face, she seems fine. In the opening she tumbles, I was like OMG, what is going on here. She did every one of her tumbling passes, all her flying, the flippy pyramid with a smile. I was dying, my guts were clenched. The minute she got off the floor she ran to me crying. We went to first aid and got ice.

I was going to go home then, but my older daughter was on a Worlds team and she said her hand felt better.

We ended up getting snowed in another night. Her hand didn't hurt anymore after the ice and Motrin and I wrapped it in an ace wrap. I took her to the ER on the way home and she had 2 breaks in one of the little bones of her hand.

I did all the right things, she was going to be released the Monday after Jamfest Supernationals. Her cast was off for 2 weeks before then and she attended practice but didn't participate.

The practice before Supernationals the coach asked if she could just fly in the elite stunt, the girl filling in for her could not hit the stunt. I said yes. She flew in the stunt and did the dance and that was all.

I only let her because she was going to be released the next day anyway.

That is a deep dark confession.

cheermeup said:

That is a deep dark confession.

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I'm proud of you.

I can admit to holding a barf bucket on the side of the floor. Which was used immediately before and after hitting an immaculate routine, by the way.

cheerfan27 said:

I got smart a little late over the weekend as I had already bought my 2 day pass. Our meet time was 5:00 and I noticed an overflowing trash can as I was parking and thought I would give it a check, one was laying right by the trash can. I scooped it up without missing a step.

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I'm definitely going to be trying this one!!!

not a cheer mom but my mom and a couple other moms from my team have this thing they call the " cheer mom drink" whats in it i have no idea all i know its i was told i couldn't have any till i was a cheer mom. They usually only have it during away competitions after a long day at the arena they get together in someones room and have their "cheer mom" drink and gossip about the competition that day while us cheerleaders play hotel tag or something

megaroo714 said:

not a cheer mom but my mom and a couple other moms from my team have this thing they call the " cheer mom drink" whats in it i have no idea all i know its i was told i couldn't have any till i was a cheer mom. They usually only have it during away competitions after a long day at the arena they get together in someones room and have their "cheer mom" drink and gossip about the competition that day while us cheerleaders play hotel tag or something

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Oh no!!! We never thought the kids knew!!!

cheermeup said:

Something that annoys me about VIP is all the kids from the gym are little and fast and run and get all the front row seats. I used to ask them to let me sit down since I was paying the bills.

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It's not just the kids, some of those die hard moms are pretty fast -lol-

cheermominar said:

It's not just the kids, some of those die hard moms are pretty fast -lol-

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I am over it after 7 years! I will just stay in the back with my good camera with the zoom lens!

mstealtoyou said:

I'm definitely going to be trying this one!!!

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Oh, it was broken and twisted so pack some scotch tape so you can put it on your wrist.

Just Cheer Bows said:

I am over it after 7 years! I will just stay in the back with my good camera with the zoom lens!

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cheermominar said:

It's not just the kids, some of those die hard moms are pretty fast -lol-

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YEP. Luckily for me - my daughter says when she sees me she gets nervous lol... so I just head to the back anyway.. this is my 11th yr..I am not about to fight the mad rush to the front when my daughter's team performs - I just wave to my cheer mom friends and say I will see you on the other side! I would prefer to stay out of VIP and watch from farther away to get a better view - but I get the cheer mom pressure to join down front lol..so I go and just grab my back spot.

cheerfan27 said:

I got smart a little late over the weekend as I had already bought my 2 day pass. Our meet time was 5:00 and I noticed an overflowing trash can as I was parking and thought I would give it a check, one was laying right by the trash can. I scooped it up without missing a step.

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mstealtoyou said:

I'm definitely going to be trying this one!!!

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Now I have this visual of all us cheermoms hanging out around the trash cans drinking our "cheer mom sodas" before we go in!

I got the pressure as well. I wasn't friendly enough. I wasn't supportive enough. I CALL IT....NO DRAMA! I was sitting too close to the owners of Top Gun and not close enough to my own gym but I could actually see!!! No way I am driving to Miami. Just want to be able to breathe!

flcheermom said:

YEP. Luckily for me - my daughter says when she sees me she gets nervous lol... so I just head to the back anyway.. this is my 11th yr..I am not about to fight the mad rush to the front when my daughter's team performs - I just wave to my cheer mom friends and say I will see you on the other side! I would prefer to stay out of VIP and watch from farther away to get a better view - but I get the cheer mom pressure to join down front lol..so I go and just grab my back spot.

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Just volunteer to save seats and watch bags, someone has to stay back.

cheerfan27 said:

Just volunteer to save seats and watch bags, someone has to stay back.

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BRILLIANT