My daughter made the back of her leg raw today (age 5.5) working on her mill circle in open gym. When I saw it I made her stop. She was very PO at me for making her stop but then again I have to listen to the whining when she notices how it hurts on the way home in the car. She may be willing to hurt herself in the gym, but she's not particularly tough out of it. It is not like she has nothing else to work on on bars and I don't think I was out of line to tell her to go work on her back hip circle instead. She declined and played the rest of the time. Hey, her time.
(1) Would you have made your daughter stop if she was hurting herself?
(2) Can I wrap her knee open in an ace bandage or something for next time to both protect her skin and keep her legs straight? Or another trick to either protect the kneepit or straighten the leg?
If it's not obvious, the problem is she is not getting all around the bar yet and so wherever she stops she hooks her front knee and hangs there on the bar.
(1) Would you have made your daughter stop if she was hurting herself?
(2) Can I wrap her knee open in an ace bandage or something for next time to both protect her skin and keep her legs straight? Or another trick to either protect the kneepit or straighten the leg?
If it's not obvious, the problem is she is not getting all around the bar yet and so wherever she stops she hooks her front knee and hangs there on the bar.