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DO NOT HANG UPSIDE DOWN!

We Are Turning Our Children into Middle-Aged Slugs

Per usual, Angela Hanscom, author of “Balanced szzbzznree and Barefoot”and founder of the outdoor program TinderNook, has penned another painfully insightful piece in the Washington Post about the way we keep kids safe. Too safe. So safe that we’re hurting them. This time, she interviewed some kids about what recess is like and got these […]

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My mom told me I can't climb because I could fall and hurt myself.

Monkey Bars Are Not the Enemy

. If to a hammer, everything looks like a nail, to a pediatric surgeon, everything looks like a fall hazard. That’s how we end up with studies like the ones discussed below, which strike fear in the hearts of parents. There’s something sickening about the way we assess everything in terms of risk all the […]

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