what are Monkey Bars????????

 

I'm surprised with the monkey bars! most kids in my daughter's first grade class are just starting to be able to do the monkey bars! And I never could, but have fairly decent hand writting. My oldest cannot move from bar to bar, but she can hang forever. We got them a jungle gym with bars so they'll probably get plenty of practice this summer!

My best friends daughter was a butt hopper! It was very weird and I never saw anyone else do it.

 

Hmmm. That's really interesting stuff.

My daughter was an Army crawler. She'd pull herself along with just her arms. It was quite a feat. I think she transitioned to hands and knees for a week or two before she just stood up and walked.

My son looked a little like a frog.

I think it's actually really cool to see the different methods babies come up with to get moving.

I'll have to ask my hubs if he was good at Monkey bars because his handwriting is atrocious.

 

Actually, I have excellent, beautiful, flowing penmanship but I have never, ever been able to go across the monkeybars. (Goofball, mokeybars are a tall play structure in which kids swing with their arms from one rung to the next to get across.) My upper arm strength is basically non-existent. I can do calligraphy, though, so I guess there is an exception to every rule.

On a semi-related note, it always cracks me up when people tell me that I have beautiful handwriting. Is that not a bizarre compliment?

 

It is just a correlation. It has to do with upper arm strength so it's how long you can hold yourself not necessarily how far you can go across. However, I think her point is that most kids would probably not just hang there if they could go on to the next bar. I'm sure it's largely dependent on how often you go on the monkey bars therefore someone who's at the park every day and struggles with the monkey bars vs. someone who's at the park every day and can go across.

Whirlwind, I was surprised by that to but I do have to say I've also been surprised by the number of kids OS's age who can do one or two bars.