Daughter is going to tryout for Cheerleading.

Hi realan, I do hope your daughter does well with her first cheer leading tryouts, enjoys her experience and makes it to the squad. From what you have shared with us in your post, she sounds like a natural, what with her previous dancing classes and gymnastics instructions. Hopefully too, it will also help her to come out of her shell. Please let me know where to send some extra ear plugs for you, if perhaps you might need them in the near distant future! *lol* Since I don't have any kids, I don't have a daughter in cheer leading. But there is a young neighbor girl where I live who is a cheerleader and has been one for quite some time. She is really sweet, quite athletic (good with hand stands and stuff), plus very out going (not to mention LOUD!!). *lol*... I think it can/could be both a positive as well as negative experience for a girl, but a great learning opportunity if she gets to do it. Especially a positive one if it helps her to learn to become more outgoing and communicate better with others and also develop her sense of self esteem. But a negative one, if she only feels the lure of just doing the popularity thing. Hope ya know what I mean. And hope your daughter makes it, enjoys it, and that you keep us all posted. When are her tryouts? When I was maybe like in junior high?? Not even sure what year now... I SO wanted to become a cheer leader. But looking back at that time in my life, guess I never really wanted it badly enough, to actually try hard enough to make it. But glad you got to be one for a year, realan. Even though I didn't make it through to getting to become a cheer leader, I do warmly remember my mother making me a pair of some little red corduroy shorts with a skirt thingie in/on the front and back of them. Thanks for your post and the warm, fuzzy memories. Take care, firefox333