I don't know where else to put this so if it gets moved I wont be upset

  I was sleeping befor work tonight and all of a sudden i hear my oldest girl (10) go into histerics

then my wife telling her to calm down. So I bold out of bed and run into the kitchen to find that my presise little girl had stuck her finger into my brand new Abu Garcia 6000 bait caster and got it bad stuck inbetween the reel side and levle wind  I had no idia how to make it go backwords. (they don't)

I pop off that little screw on the botton and nothing loosend up I was like I don't understand. I tell the wife we had to go to the hospitl and get it cut off. Well littl girl thought i was talking about her finger (bless her ) and went ballistic.

Grabed up my 5500 and took that same scruew off and that little wijet inside fell out.

whent back to the 6000 and looked and she had jamed it so tight agenst her finger that it took a pair of small needle nose to get it out.

 Alls good now just a bad bruise and a loooooooooooooooooooot of tears

  JACK      

Kids get into the darndest situations.

I don't know how stop a child from sticking his/her finger into your fishing reel if that what's she determined to do.

Of course you could have told her that next time she does it you'll use her for bait, but I suspect the truama of thinking she was getting her finger amputated is enough to cure her of this particular habit.  

I'm guessing at this point that she will never touch another one of your reels for any reason, but just in case you might want to consider reel covers.  I have one on each of my reels anyway, but since I have a small child I'm even more glad I have them now.