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Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play (www.afterbabel.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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We parents are caught in a paradox. We desperately want to keep our children safe and ensure their success. We are also often terrified that they will get hurt and that they will fail—so we do everything we can to prevent that from happening. Yet many of those very efforts to manage our fears have paradoxically reduced our children’s safety and their odds of success.

For over two decades, I have researched children’s development, injury prevention, and outdoor risky play. I have learned that when we prioritize children’s play (especially the kind of play that involves some risk and lack of supervision) and the freedom to play how they choose, we help create environments where children and youth thrive. When we don’t, the consequences can be dire.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're either delusional or privileged if you think CPS doesn't have the potential to fuck up your life even for something that isn't actually harmful, especially since some of the people at CPS have paranoid attitudes themselves.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150115090326/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-couple-want-free-range-kids-but-not-all-do/2015/01/14/d406c0be-9c0f-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120217115942/http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=david_pimentel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

You want to base your whole approach to parenting on how some hypothetical helicopter parent could potentially respond, combined with a handful of CPS case outliers, but I'm the delusional one? OK then. I'll stick to my delusions and you can keep your kids on a leash until they're teenagers.