Commandment 1 - Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) by Lenore Skenazy - #troppimatti #offertadisicurezza #ilrischiosupremo #forzadellaneddoto
Now look, I’m a mom too, and when plans change, I’d like to get a call. But there’s a difference between being mildly annoyed and hair-standing-straight-up hysterical.Read more at location 305
How dare anyone subject her daughter to that unscheduled ice cream shop experience?Read more at location 317
a lot of parents today are really bad at assessing risk. They see no difference between letting their children walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range.Read more at location 321
the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters any risks.Read more at location 326
Riding a bike without a helmet strikes me as about as sensible as riding a roller coaster rated MP for “Missing Planks.” My love for seatbelts borders on the obsessive. And car seats? One of those saved my life when I was two and our car somersaulted off the highway.Read more at location 328
A woman who wrote me from quiet, suburban Atlanta won’t let her daughter go to the mailbox by herself. That’s right. The mailbox.Read more at location 338
Another dad informed his daughter that he was going to follow her school field trip to make sure nothing happened to her.Read more at location 340
THERE AREN’T ANY MORE CREEPS NOW THAN WHEN WE WERE KIDS. Hard to believe, but that’s what the statistics show.Read more at location 348
violent crime in America has been falling since it peaked in the early nineties. That includes sex crimes against kids.Read more at location 351
Those crimes are so very rare that the rates do not go up or down by much in any given year. Throw in the fact that now almost everyone is carrying a cell phone and can immediately call the policeRead more at location 356
The problem is that we parents feel that childhood is more dangerous for our kids than it was for us, and over the course of this book, we’ll look at where those fears come fromRead more at location 359
Dr. F. Sessions Cole, chief medical officer at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital,Read more at location 365
“The problem is that the public assumes that any risk to any individual is 100 percent risk to them.” What he means is that if people hear about one child who died from falling out of a crib, they immediately assume that their child is at riskRead more at location 366
And yet rattled parents, besieged by media and each other,Read more at location 373
They’re not allowed to walk alone (cars!), explore (perverts!), or play in the park (those perverts again) or in the woods (ticks!) or in trees (gravity!) or in water (drowning!) or in dirt (dirt). It’s not your imagination: childhood really has changed. Forty years ago, the majority of U.S. children walked or biked to school. Today, about 10 percent do. Meantime, 70 percent of today’s moms say they played outside as kids. But only 31 percent of their kids do.Read more at location 381
Where did all this fear come from? Take your pick: The fact that we’re all working so hard that we don’t know our neighbors.Read more at location 386
The fact that the marketplace is brimming with products to keep our kids “safe”Read more at location 387
our brains cling to scary thoughts (girls murdered on a country road) but not mundane ones (all the girls who walk home from school without getting murdered).Read more at location 389
Schools hold pre-field trip assemblies explaining exactly how close the children will be to a hospital.Read more at location 394
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