Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too.
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.
I believe that children should not be made to work.
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