Rockclimbing is a pretty scary thing for most primary school kids. When you are leading a session of rockclimbing, it is vital that you make the children feel safe and encouraged. In order to aid future leaders in this endeavour I have compiled a list of things NOT to say when a child is either on, or about to climb a Rockwall:
-Im not very good at tying knots
-Ive dropped the rope, like, 700 times today
-Oh shit!
-Thank-goodness the new ropes have arrived, these ones are terrible
-Is your harness done up properly?
-Hold on
-Stop climbing for a second!
-Wait, im confused
-Huh? oh yeah ive got you
-On belay climb when… wait on..
I hope all future rockclimbing leaders find this list very useful and I categorically deny saying any, or all, of these things to children in the past two days.
Happy climbing!
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