Queensland education department officials will today talk to a school that has banned cartwheels and handstands in the playground.
Belgian Gardens State School in Townsville has banned all gymnastics activities during breaks to protect students from injury.
Education Minister Rod Welford said regional education officers would talk to the school about the policy today.
Mr Welford said teachers feared parents could sue schools for student accidents.
"I think the decision by the principal in Townsville the other day was prompted by the fact that increasingly we as a community are wrapping our children in cotton wool," Mr Welford told ABC radio.
"Because more and more parents are even complaining when their children have minor accidents.
"I think our generation of parents are mollycoddling their children.”