As a parent, I have found that raising a child without risk, fear and the occasional smaller painful accident is not possible. My daughter is 4, and we can not

As a parent, I have found that raising a child without risk, fear and the occasional smaller painful accident is not possible. My daughter is 4, and we can not convince her that something she does is dangerous until she has empirically proven it. Exceptions are obvious things where it is clear that you will die or you "will become a skeleton" (crossing the road without looking, playing around train tracks, playing with electricity). Examples: "Don't sit on the backrest of that chair, it will topple over". "No, that's not true at all, you're wrong!!!" 5 minutes later: Crash. Quiet. Cry. Never done again. "You cannot build bridges out of sofa cushions between the sofa and the coffee table, it won't support you". "No! I am small! It will hold!" 5 minutes later: Crash. Quiet. Cry. Never done again. On bicycle: "Drive slower, you have to break!". "No, I like it fast! I cannot fall, my tires are big!" Seconds later: Crash against fence. Quiet. Cry. Now she drives carefully. In winter: "Be careful on that ice!". "But my new shoes have rubber, dad, they won't slip, don't you know that?!?" Seconds later: Slip. Bamm. Quiet. Cry. Now she knows rubber soles slip on ice. As long as there is no risk of a serious, life-threatening accident, I have become pretty relaxed. I remember that I constantly had scraped knees and bruises as a child. When I was 7, my grandparents regularly send me to a gas station nearby to buy the paper, and my mother would send me to the supermarket with my 4 year old brother to get groceries. I walked to kindergarten by myself when I was 5.