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"Our only goal is to make sure students are safe." This is the problem. Parents who won't let their children play unsupervised. Police who won't let children
by duncan_bayne 12y ago
"Our only goal is to make sure students are safe."
This is the problem.
Parents who won't let their children play unsupervised.
Police who won't let children walk home from the park.
Schools who won't let children experience rough and tumble play.
Park designers who won't let children take physical risks.
Here's the thing: human flourishing requires danger. At almost all stages of development.
- deepsun 12y agoAgree, but it's just the human nature -- we want to know about all dangers and take preventive actions. One example is news -- almost all news are about some dangers, because media companies know well what their audience pays for. In nowadays world there a too few dangers, so we exaggerate what we have, and imagine dangers we don't have. The question is what should we do about this, and should we?
- zimpenfish 12y agoYou'd probably need to address the legal system to fix this - police don't want to be sued if they let kids walk home and something happens; same for schools and park designers.
- duncan_bayne 12y agoOr, if it's feasible for you, move somewhere non-crazy: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-my-child-will-be-your-childs-boss/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-my-child-will-be-your-childs...
- zimpenfish 12y agoI live in the UK - we tend not to have this problem anyway.
- duncan_bayne 12y agoI'm in Australia - also relatively free, but there are worrying signs of it developing here. There's already a backlash against it though, so there is hope.
- _cipher_ 12y agoI agree. The situation with "safety" is getting out of hand. What could possibly be the danger from reading in a bus? Even if some car crashes with the bus, due to the mass of the bus, there's little chance of getting hurt, let alone the chance of getting killed from the book or something. > Police who won't let children walk home from the park. I suppose this is happening at the States? Can you provide some info on this? The only word to describe the above that comes to mind (at least for me) is alien. :)
- kayfox 12y agohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/decision-in-free-range-case-does-not-end-debate-about-parenting-and-safety/2015/03/02/5a919454-c04d-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/decision-in-fr... You can indulge yourself on more cases here: http://www.freerangekids.com/ http://www.freerangekids.com/