My daughter is going to drive me crazy! She's an 8yo Level 4 who recently had her ankle casted for stress fractures in the growth plate. I mistakenly thought that this would hamper her abilities a little bit, yeah right! I can not get the child to stop running and using it. I have been taking her to her practices because I figured conditioning couldn't hurt her, but I've seen her doing back walkovers, cartwheels, and any other tumbling she can get away with behind the coaches' backs. Because of the weight, she does wait for a spot on bars, but doesn't like it. She was so upset after practice last night, it was their strength testing night and the coach wouldn't let her attempt the sprints. Did she really think she could shave time off her run?
Tonight (her night off), I went over it all with her and "gently reminded" (cough*threatened*cough) her that if she doesn't take it a little easy, the doctor was going to put her back in the cast. I must have gotten through to her a little because later instead of finding her practicing in the basement, I found her having her little brother run his floor routine over and over and attempting to clean it up by demonstrating how to correctly do the moves. At least she wasn't attempting to walk on her hands again.
She already has some cracks in the bottom of the cast and we've had to line it with moleskin a few times because she keeps getting rubbed spots. This child is going to drive me crazy!
Tonight (her night off), I went over it all with her and "gently reminded" (cough*threatened*cough) her that if she doesn't take it a little easy, the doctor was going to put her back in the cast. I must have gotten through to her a little because later instead of finding her practicing in the basement, I found her having her little brother run his floor routine over and over and attempting to clean it up by demonstrating how to correctly do the moves. At least she wasn't attempting to walk on her hands again.
She already has some cracks in the bottom of the cast and we've had to line it with moleskin a few times because she keeps getting rubbed spots. This child is going to drive me crazy!