(Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this thread, but I'm never sure where to put stuff).
DD just switched to a new gym in March, and has really been loving it - it's much more conditioning-based than skills-based like her old gym, and conditioning is what she needs to work on.
Anyway, they have the big giant rope that goes to the ceiling of the gym (so 2 stories, I guess). Part of each practice they do a circuit that involves climbing (or attempting, in DD's case - she never saw a rope before March) to the ceiling and then coming down. DD is in a Pre-Team development class - 4-6 year olds. I just kind of assumed it was no big deal, until another parent was talking last night about how it makes her nervous fo them to be so high up wiht really nothing to catch them. There are mats on the ground, and it looks (from our vantage point) to be on the spring floor, but still.
My response was that the gym has been around for a long time, and if a kid fell and broke their neck, I'm sure we would have heard about it by now.
Is the rope climbing thing weird? Is it normal for that age group? DD just joined this gym, but talking to other parents it seems like a lot of the "beginner" (so like 4yo) classes do it.
DD just switched to a new gym in March, and has really been loving it - it's much more conditioning-based than skills-based like her old gym, and conditioning is what she needs to work on.
Anyway, they have the big giant rope that goes to the ceiling of the gym (so 2 stories, I guess). Part of each practice they do a circuit that involves climbing (or attempting, in DD's case - she never saw a rope before March) to the ceiling and then coming down. DD is in a Pre-Team development class - 4-6 year olds. I just kind of assumed it was no big deal, until another parent was talking last night about how it makes her nervous fo them to be so high up wiht really nothing to catch them. There are mats on the ground, and it looks (from our vantage point) to be on the spring floor, but still.
My response was that the gym has been around for a long time, and if a kid fell and broke their neck, I'm sure we would have heard about it by now.
Is the rope climbing thing weird? Is it normal for that age group? DD just joined this gym, but talking to other parents it seems like a lot of the "beginner" (so like 4yo) classes do it.