To think my friends DD shouldn't constantly be on stilts?

[Joanna1980]

My friend is a successful aerial artist, her husband works part time teaching circus skills.

Their DD is 8 and every time I have seen them recently she has been on her stilts. They seem to like the attention, but surely it can't be healthy?

It's embarrassing sometimes when we are out and I wish I could say something, or know what to say.

AIBU?

is it emabressing cos the 8yr old is taller than you?

Well other people find it funny, but I worry it can't be good for her posture.

Is it a pain in the neck?

?? really on stilts all the time?

i wold havethought that it helped her balance and so her posture wold be improved?

but then again i've never attempted stilts...im too close to gatwick

that's quite cool though isn't it? stilts are very hard to master

My dd spent most of her 10th summer on stilts. She appears unharmed.

lol
am scratching my big top, as i cant quite trapeze this

I spent most of my 9th year doing headstands - it explains my enormous brain.

.....and the fact that I still have pins and needles in my feet.

Just tell her to stop clowning around

Are you thinking that her development will somehow be ...stilted ?

you're right
a unicycle would be much better for her posture

If you think it is for you to speak up you may just have to get on your high horse ...

Unless she is constantly falling on top of you or is somehow hurting you whilst she is walking on her stilts then yes you are being unreasonable.

Children can be very embarrasing, they probably find you and your child/ren embarrasing because you and/or your child/ren can't walk on stilts.

I had a unicycle, not done my posture much good.

why is it unhealthy?
are you jealous as youthink youd fall off?

loving some of these replies

I spent lots of my childhood standing one legged on a pony ( until the farmer caught me and chased me away)

I have turned out ok

Do you think she will be too big for her boots?

I learnt to walk on stilts at a circus camp when I was 11. If I'd kept those stilts I'd totally have worn them all the time!

Does she wear big velvet pantaloons over them, so it looks like she's just got really long legs?

I'm glad you mentioned boots. The shoes she wears are attached to the stilts. I've seen them and they are horrible ugly things. It's sad she hasn't got properly fitted startrites or clarks.

tell your friend her dd needs to get her head out of the clouds

Do you think her mum and dad spend too much time juggling things to notice that she's on them all the time?

Does their car fall apart in a comedy fashion when they drive down the street?