Can a Playground Be Too Safe? - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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“If children and parents believe they are in an environment which is safer than it actually is, they will take more risks. An argument against softer surfacing is that children think it is safe, but because they don’t understand its properties, they overrate its performance.”
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Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11True in online social spaces, too!
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The best thing is to let children encounter these challenges from an early age, and they will then progressively learn to master them through their play over the years.”
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“Older children are discouraged from taking healthy exercise on playgrounds because they have been designed with the safety of the very young in mind,” Dr. Ball said. “Therefore, they may play in more dangerous places, or not at all.”