Cheerleading is often misinterpreted by parents today, and society as a whole.
             Most people might not even call it a sport but a wimpy activity for the average girl. In "3
             Cheers for my cheers for my daughters," the narrator, is a mother learning about
             cheerleading and excepting her daughters choice of sport. Cheerleading might be
             interpreted as being a sport degrading to young women. Most cheerleaders are often
             known as being airheads, blond, and an easy catch for guys. In this particular story the
             mother's attitude evolves from disliking cheerleading to a appreciating it greatly. It
             describes how she learns through her daughter to appreciate cheerleading as a sport and a
             The daughter comes home nervous and looking for approval for her
             upcoming decision to tryout for being a cheerleading. The mother who knows how smart,
             strong willed, strong-armed, critical, and deep she was. "I screamed when my daughter
             told me at 16 that she was trying out to be a cheerleader," the mother describes her
             feeling after hearing from her daughter. The daughter makes the squad and eventually
             makes team captain. The mother doubts that she is the type of person to yell in front of a
             large crowd at games. The daughter still does her love of cheerleading without support of
             her mother which shows her strong personality.
             More into the story the mother/narrator begins to follow the daughter a
             little bit closer. The father goes to support their daughter but he tells the mother its only
             for the love of the game. One game night the cheerleaders were performing and the
             daughter had fallen off. The girls ran off in embarrassment and were heartbroken. The
             mother, trying to encourage her daughter quoted, " The girls were athletes, I pointed out
             to her one night, just as much as the basketball players were." This proved that the
             mother became a little more supportive toward her da
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