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Looks great, kids aren't stupid, with more risk kids are more careful. Even infants will back away from a high ledge. Sadly around 1990 kids played at the loc
by sliken 4y ago
Looks great, kids aren't stupid, with more risk kids are more careful. Even infants will back away from a high ledge. Sadly around 1990 kids played at the local park and had a blast, up to 10-12 years old. By 1995 the revisions had made things MUCH safer, and much less fun, to the average age dropped to 6. By 2000 it had dropped to 3.
If it's boring kids will find something else to do.
- masklinn 4y ago> Looks great, kids aren't stupid Kids absolutely are stupid tho. But when the risk is relatively easy to evaluate as it is here, they don’t have much issue. > with more risk kids are more careful On the other hand kids are human, and none of us is as dumb as all of us (or for a more literary version the intelligence of a crowd is the square root of its cardinality).
- sliken 4y agoSure. Problem kids with no exposure to risk have no sense of accomplishment, no sense of risk, nothing to help them grow up. Should we not let kids run, for fear they skin their knees? Not let them climb any structure/tree/building for fear they might fall? Not let them have matches? A knife? Kids without exposure to risks and accomplishments grow up to be poor adults.
- WA 4y ago> kids aren't stupid Most kids are good at judging their own capabilities. But at the same time, many kids are bad at judging their own concentration and tireness-level. It's one thing to climb up a thing once or twice. Do it 10 times in a row and you are way more prone to accidents. We, as parents, can clearly see if our 4 year old starts to lose concentration, but is still excited to climb all the things at the same time. That's when accidents start to happen.