Let go a little. Too much coddling can be a bad thing for your children. Photo: Filepic
“We are here for a trial class. She’s seven,” said the cheerful new mum at my kid’s gymnastics class. Her daughter then said she was going to attempt a cartwheel but landed in a heap midway because mum squealed, “NO! Let the teacher show you how first!”
I sighed inside. It’s cartwheeling. I suspect children were cartwheeling before we invented the wheel.
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