Apparently you've never been a serious cyclist.
Unless your daughter is too small to go very fast or be seen, she'll soon find out that opening car doors, jaywalking pedestrians, people pulling out of parallel parking spots, and cars not seeing her when making right turns are far bigger hazards than a direct over-the-top run-over. I hope at that point you don't get the chance to learn that yours is badly informed advice.
It was, and she took it as, a figure of speech meaning just because you can do something legally doesn’t always mean it’s the safest thing to do. And I said in a previous post why I never became a serious cyclist— because of some creepy guy in my teens, nothing to do with cycling in and of itself, which sucks I agree.