Comments on: Free Range Kids author on protecting children in the “unbrave new world” http://www.humanistlife.org.uk/2010/07/free-range-kids-author-on-protecting-children-in-the-unbrave-new-world/ Humanist perspectives on the here and now Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah http://www.humanistlife.org.uk/2010/07/free-range-kids-author-on-protecting-children-in-the-unbrave-new-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3276 Sarah Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:52:15 +0000 http://www.humanistlife.org.uk/?p=3535#comment-3276 I think I need to read some more of his work. I get SOOOO annoyed at ridiculous 'health and safety' measures which do absolutely nothing to prevent injury to children, or which send out the message that getting a scraped knee is an unacceptable outcome of any activity. Of course you would never want children to engage in behaviour that will probably get them hurt, but creating a generation of risk averse children who are never allowed to experience anything won't do society any good in the long term. Most recently I found out that I should not have had a sack race on my sports day. Why????? Are casualty wards secretly filled with children who have sustained serious injuries participating in these dangerous races? A few years ago we were all advised not to use egg cups for crafting. Ridiculous. There has to be a backlash against all of this soon because it can't go much further. Give children back their childhoods! I think I need to read some more of his work. I get SOOOO annoyed at ridiculous ‘health and safety’ measures which do absolutely nothing to prevent injury to children, or which send out the message that getting a scraped knee is an unacceptable outcome of any activity. Of course you would never want children to engage in behaviour that will probably get them hurt, but creating a generation of risk averse children who are never allowed to experience anything won’t do society any good in the long term.

Most recently I found out that I should not have had a sack race on my sports day. Why????? Are casualty wards secretly filled with children who have sustained serious injuries participating in these dangerous races?

A few years ago we were all advised not to use egg cups for crafting. Ridiculous.

There has to be a backlash against all of this soon because it can’t go much further. Give children back their childhoods!

]]>