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Tiny risks are a part of life and most of them can be further reduced (or virtually eliminated) by the simple application of common sense.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we're going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.
We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10.
Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do ... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.
When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.
