Letting kids do “dangerous” stuff

This is a great TED talk on kids at play – and of course, how kids need to learn to play with things that we might feel is “dangerous” but still an important part of growing up. This influenced my attitude to parenting quite a lot (on top of my own upbringing, of course!).

[Embedded TED Talk - Please visit ted.com and search for “GeverTulley_2007U”]

Here’s the talk’s page on the TED site with some interesting comments.