This doesn’t mean that you should discourage your daughter from playing on the monkey bars. However, as your daughter is seeing, they will often struggle with activities related to “gymnastics” type movements, such as swinging on monkey bars, or doing forward rolls and somersaults. In general, children who are big at an early age will often dominate in some physical activities, such as sprinting, throwing a baseball, or kicking a soccer ball for distance. If this is true, you might want to point this out to her. I would hazard to guess that your daughter, due to her size, probably performs better than her classmates in some other physical activities. You might simply want to explain to her that everyone has different body types and grows at different speeds, and that she will likely catch up with her peers on the monkey bars as everyone grows over the next year or two. You don’t have anything to worry about with your daughter. As a consequence, it is generally much easier for a small child to swing on the monkey bars than a big child the same age. Swinging on the monkey bars requires a lot of arm strength in relation to total body mass, as well as much stronger hand grip. If your daughter is bigger than most of her classmates, it sounds like she is probably just struggling with her ratio of muscle mass to overall body mass. Is there any way we could help her improve on the monkey bars? She’s a bit big for her age – not overweight but just large – and I’m wondering if that could be part of it. She said that the other kids were “a lot better” than her on the monkey bars, and I could tell that she was feeling bad about herself. Q: My daughter is in Grade 1 and she likes to play on the playground with her friends at school, but she made a comment at dinner recently that worried me a little.
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