This article is quite interesting, and I hope to let my kids have this kind of environment. I'd like to underline here that this kind of parenting is very diffe

This article is quite interesting, and I hope to let my kids have this kind of environment. I'd like to underline here that this kind of parenting is very different from the one shown in a recent post about some 11yo kids watching Alien at home [1]. Watching horror movies is safe for the body, and not recommended for the emotional brain [2]. Exact opposite of these wild playgrounds. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9127761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9127761 2. Why? It seems obvious to me. Seeing very frightening or disgusting things in movies may make you overreact when facing similar disgusts in real life, or being too easily afraid. After seeing a horror movie as a kid you are afraid of monsters below your bed, afraid of darkness which may have monsters or ghosts. This is not the kind of fear that is even slightly useful. I suppose most of the ghosts stories of the past were actually useful: they prevented kids and adults from going out in the night, where they could be endangered for real. But nowadays no wolves haunt the nights anymore. It may be rational to induce a little bit of fear for cars when walking, so kids keep at safe distance. But I see no reason to raise the fears of the unknown and foreign as done in most horror movie. Another example is food: fear your plate and you're stomack will be in despair and show (either anorexia or obesity), trust your plate and you're stomack will do it's work properly: which is to keep you in normal shape. (I was so annoyed by this american girl always asking what was the dish made of in the plate: you're in China my girl, dishes are made of hundreds of mysterious things, including pig oil, msg, sichuan pepper, etc. But check the other girls beside you, they're fit, they love to eat, do it all the time, so please just eat this and enjoy it...)