People speak as if risk is a positive. It isn't. It's intrinsically bad. The issue isn't risk avoidance, but excessive risk-avoidance. The issue is paying too h

People speak as if risk is a positive. It isn't. It's intrinsically bad. The issue isn't risk avoidance, but excessive risk-avoidance. The issue is paying too high of a price to avoid risks. A top level comment mentioned climbing trees. This is an example of a somewhat risky activity that is well worth continuing. Why is that? The big benefit as I see it is that it is natural free-form play. That's freedom. It's also a play as old as time, letting them connect with our ancestors. It teaches them to interact with an environment that doesn't care about them one way or another, it isn't designed to be safe, it isn't designed to be fun or engaging. Trees are just out there for their own reasons. Exploring that, playing with that and respecting that, it seems like it should be very healthy and teach the right lessons and intuitions and prepare them for the rest of the world.