only a girl

We had a couple of spare minutes and since it is so nice outside today I let my kids run around outside before it was our "official" recess time. I was having them run, skip, hop, etc. to our school sign and then come back to me. I noticed one of my little girls wasn't hopping like I asked her to so I said, "M, you aren't hopping." She looked at me so seriously and said, "But Mrs. Jerkins, if I hop all of my barrettes will fall out." How silly of me not to have considered how our activity would have affected her hair.