Fear, you would think, is a negative experience to be avoided whenever possible. Yet, as everyone who has a child or once was one knows, children love to play in risky ways—ways that combine the joy ...
On a warm, sunny beach near Melbourne, Australia, Alethea Jerebine watched her daughters scrambling up a jumble of rocks. “Can they do that?” she worried about her 10-year-old and 13-year-old. The ...
As my kids return to school, I have been reflecting on my own childhood and the Canadian Paediatric Society's recent recommendations around risky play. In a statement, the organization wrote: "Free ...
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Risky play helps children develop real-world safety skills, new virtual reality research suggests
A recent study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology suggests that children who engage in risky play tend to develop better risk management skills for real-world situations. The ...
A girl swings across the monkey bars, an invention adopted in the 1920s in Winnetka, IL that encouraged children to follow an ancestral drive to test their physical limitations. Anthropologists at ...
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