Best Gymnastics Gym near Fredericksburg, Virginia

If you have small children STAY AWAY! I had originally took my first review down due to Paragon working out a solution and taking care of the situation we had encountered. First I want to say most of the people who work here are whole hearted people with good intentions and wonderful with kids but there are a few bad apples in the bunch. A couple months ago, we had a situation where one of the staff members had a bad attitude and mannerism towards our child. Luckily, our child had told us what was going on and had one of the senior staff members pull the video camera footage and had validated what was happening. After they had reviewed the footage, they terminated that staff member and apologized. We all agreed it was a one time incident and moved forward. Fast forward to today, my child and I enter their establishment on the day we normally go there and noticed the employee they had "fired" was working there again. I feel sorry for any other children who have to encounter working with this person. If it wasn't for our child speaking up and saying something, nothing would have happened in the first place, just makes you wonder how many other children had to experience the nastiness and negativity from this person before she was caught. STAY AWAY!!!

Paragon Gym is a excellent place for all ages! My daughter enjoys going there every week! She enjoys her instructor, highly recommended! Summer and Winter sessions! Stop by and bring your kid's! This gym for kid's will always be number #1.

Paragon Gym is an amazing place for kids. The staff is top notch. My child truly loves coming to practice multiple times a week. I like knowing that this gym is considered a safe space for my daughter.

My son had a great time during a recent Birthday party. The staff person in charge was awesome, and so patient with all the kids. I can't wait to go again.

Told us we couldn't join the party unless my kid had a ponytail up, he thinks ponytails are for girls. He is six years old so there was no reasoning with him, I did try... I tried the man bun- he didn't buy it and found the ponytail/bun painful. He said he would rather cut his hair. I said okay, we have scissors in the car! The woman said, Noo don't cut your hair. I said well if he HAS to have it up or short and he'd rather do short hair then that doesn't leave us many choices, just not go to party? Well, I guess my son was desperate. This is where the women should have just said, go ahead just don't do whatever it is that long hair is not okay for. Anyway, I took precautions and told him it wouldn't grow back blah blah and he still wanted to cut his hair if it meant he didn't have to put his hair up. He cried and wanted his hair back. It ended up being a bad move on my part. I try to keep it real. But why do they have to be so controlling? I never would put my hair up either as a kid. Not even for soccer. He ended up missing the party completely and wouldn't let anyone look at him. He cried for hours over missing the party and his hair. Thanks, Paragon. Great place "for kids" lol Not! haha oh well. Never going back. I should have just left and said sorry sweetie no party. Either way- an incident or not, that's a stupid policy to be super hard-core forceful about. Especially for a kids' place. They could simply restrict equipment use for safety reasons if kids want their hair down. Edit/Response to Paragon's comment: I saw other kids there without their hair in ponytail holders. It's rude to respond and say to me "Well, all the other boys wear their ponytail holders." It sounds like you're trying to single out my kid. Implying there's something wrong with him because he had a problem. It adds insult to injury, plus he said it hurt his head. I appreciate the need for safety, but that's what waivers and such are for. Nowhere did it say, when we RSVP to the party, that he had to put his hair up. Paragon company needs to have signs and notifications before you get there warning you of this. In addition, my son could have just seen his classmates, said hi, and not used the equipment. Guarantee, he'd just run around anyway. Perhaps you should consider not doing birthday parties if you are going to be so strict. This is supposed to be a gym for kids after all.