My tween is on a countdown to being allowed to join our local gym - it might seem strange to discourage him but I do have my reasons for not wanting him to go, and I wonder if other parents feel the same.
From the moment my youngest child pressed his face against the glass wall of the gym to look for me while I was training, he's been desperate to join. He was around six-years-old at the time, and being able to get a membership was a long way off. But I knew his interest was well and truly piqued, because from then he's wanted the lowdown on every piece of equipment and a breakdown of my workouts whenever I returned from a training session.
