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Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.

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The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

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Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

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The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

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Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

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Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

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Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

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The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

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Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

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