Can playgrounds be too safe? asks Michael Enright.
This is an era that force-feeds parents on the foolish idea that children have to be protected from all risk, all dangers, at all costs.”
In Canada everybody is so fearful of allowing children to take risks that we restrict (actually impede) normal physical activity.
Enright reports on a school in Aukland New Zealand that threw out the “safety” rules for the school playground and discovered many benefits for the children in relatively unhampered play.
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