Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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.

Adults are terrible at evaluating risks to their kids, in this cultural moment erring hard on the side of total risk avoidance. I think instilling fear-compliance as a survival strategy is pretty harmful, but separately I think there's a high cost to having zero trust in children

I don't have kids, not for lack of trying. I'm around a few parents who don't menace their kids at all (and are also pretty cool on bribery). No broken necks yet. Do you think they must be negligent?