I’m encouraged to go higher

My 8-year-old daughter has been waiting since the beginning of the school year for the day when she’d finally get to move up from her little-kid tumbling class to the big-kid gymnastics class. But now that it’s time, she is suddenly terribly unhappy about the whole idea. She moped around for a few days, talking about quitting, before she finally told me one night at bedtime exactly what was troubling her. She’s worried, she said, that she’ll be the worst person in the class. She’s worried she’ll fall