Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

What do you think is the rate of broken necks in children who don't fear their parents vs. those who do?

Coming from the last dregs of a generation that occasionally had unsupervised space to run wild, climb trees, roll down hills, bike freely, etc., I'm pretty concerned about the ramifications of treating children as though they're suicidal morons, especially via fear and force.

I'm just not sure why you assume he wouldn't get a foot or so up, look down, get frightened, decide to come down, maybe need some help, etc. It's an opportunity to learn from direct experience or an opportunity to reinforce compliance without any exposure to real-world risk

Not saying "don't warn your children about the dangers around them," I'm saying that children are actually pretty good at evaluating obvious, visible risks, especially once they've been pointed out, & that exploring them may actually be an important aspect to their development.