Safety, Risk and Early Learning

I have talked about the issues of how raising children to keep themselves safe by learning good risk assessment skills is important and how our instinct as parents to keep our children safe from harm plus the attitudes toward liability in the US encourage everyone in our society to protect children from all risk. This article by John Tierney published in the New York Times states the argument for incorporating some risk in your child's life quite effectively. Take a look by clicking on the link below and see what you think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19tierney.html?scp=1&sq=Can%20...