If the parents are still there and hovering, new playground designs won’t help
New 'adventure playgrounds' fight insipid coddling culture by encouraging kids to take risks, manage dangers, and get a few scrapes and bruises. #stoicismhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html#click=https://t.co/mnN5ywBJMa …
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Yes, but the article indicates that parents are kept out and/or discouraged from hovering.
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In my time we played in construction sites when the workers left. Cops stopped us one day and brought us home in squad cars. More afraid of my parents than the cops.
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I remember being on jobsite with my father playing with ninja turtles on the sand piles.
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There's also the theory of risk homeostasis. The "safer" the environment, the more determined the risk taking and the more fearsome the consequences.
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I love this. Nothing wrong with wanting your kids to be safe, but bubble wrapping children doesnt help them. If we keep handholding too hard our presidents will need their mothers in office to help them.
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Play date in the mid 1980’s: “go find your friends and come home before the sun sets.”
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"Fighting children from the sky, fearless kids who jump and......ummm, up and down"? I remember getting my wings in kindergarten that and not crapping myself are still my proudest achievements.pic.twitter.com/vlBVy2UGjc
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