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Team Dad- Our school system works early reading skills in kindergarten. My daughter was reading at a second grade level last spring when she finished kindergarten. Now, six weeks into first grade, she’s reading at close to a third grade level. She is an extraordinary girl. Also, I think I said she uses the pictures in the book that demonstrate the proper way to do skills. I read the text. However, she is capable of finding the skill she wants to see. She knows at which level the skills are taught and knows how to look them up in the book. Respectfully, you are not one to say what level my child is capable of reading or interpreting the JO book. You don’t know my daughter.
And no, kids don’t generally break an ankle or become paralyzed by reading. The point I was trying to make was the extreme view that simply having the skills book or video at home could make a child not want to go home at all. I think that is a ludicrous idea.
However, with regards to injuries, keep in mind that over 200,000 injuries to children under the age of 15 occur on playgrounds. About 45% of these injuries are severe and can result in fractures, dislocations, concussions and even amputations. There have also been 147 children killed in playground accidents between 1990 and 2000. Further, the vast majority of these accidents occur on public playgrounds, including schools. And yet we still allow our children to play. And another example, a young girl at our gym has broken her elbow three times in the last two years, twice at the gym and once on the playground. Accidents can happen anywhere at any time, and from the best I can tell, accidents happen far more often at the gym and on the playground than they do on a home balance beam.
Pixie- Our gym also sells home equipment for Christmastime and will provide any parent that asks with a copy of the floor music. I’d say that constitutes condoning additional practices if the gymnasts so desires.
And no, kids don’t generally break an ankle or become paralyzed by reading. The point I was trying to make was the extreme view that simply having the skills book or video at home could make a child not want to go home at all. I think that is a ludicrous idea.
However, with regards to injuries, keep in mind that over 200,000 injuries to children under the age of 15 occur on playgrounds. About 45% of these injuries are severe and can result in fractures, dislocations, concussions and even amputations. There have also been 147 children killed in playground accidents between 1990 and 2000. Further, the vast majority of these accidents occur on public playgrounds, including schools. And yet we still allow our children to play. And another example, a young girl at our gym has broken her elbow three times in the last two years, twice at the gym and once on the playground. Accidents can happen anywhere at any time, and from the best I can tell, accidents happen far more often at the gym and on the playground than they do on a home balance beam.
Pixie- Our gym also sells home equipment for Christmastime and will provide any parent that asks with a copy of the floor music. I’d say that constitutes condoning additional practices if the gymnasts so desires.
