Is Your Risk Management Too Good?
The current thinking among many pediatricians and child-rearing experts is that we have developed a generation of overmanaged “bubble-wrapped” kids. While keeping our offspring relatively free of broken bones, knee scrapes, and misery, inducing infectious diseases, is quite admirable; it may be doing more harm than good in the long run. In a 2015 position paper,1 a diverse group of child health and safety experts issued a position paper that stated, “Access to active play in nature and outdoors—with its risks—is essential for healthy child development.” The paper continued to warn against “‘Hyper-parenting,’ ‘invasive parenting,’ or ‘intensive parenting,’ in which a climate of ‘inflated risk’ leads ...
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