This post is about the benefits of youth sports. All opinions are my own, I recently wrapped up a 17-year career as a gymnastics mom. My three girls have done gymnastics since we were thrown out of our local Mommy and Me class. The owner suggested I enroll them in a regular gymnastics school, which I did. We never looked back. Seventeen years of classes, practices, and meets and I have never paid for gymnastics. Not too many people have been evicted from a Mommy and Me class, but I can proudly claim that accolade. My girls were always spunky and fearless. I encouraged it. I was always a shy,…