She'll be 10 soon and we gave her the nailbiting lecture again last night ... her cuticles were seriously shredded and bleeding, strings of skin hanging off almost to her first knuckle, makes you wince to look at it. Nails not so bad.

Its possible she damages them some other way and doesn't notice but I doubt it. When she was in the bath last night I spotted several absolutely MASSIVE bruises she didn't notice getting and she generally doesn't feel things until they get really badly infected but still ... her cuticles look AWFUL

This is a child who thinks it is fun to jump off the 3m high water tower in our backyard, barely missing a pile of broken concrete, despite us telling her it could break her legs. While her friend is up there saying how she broke her leg just on the trampoline. "But its ooooooonly 3 metres high". She has a very very very high pain threshold.