Author: Kelsey Saterfield

Risky play does not mean we set your child loose on the world without expectation. It doesn’t mean giving them a stick and telling them to whack a kid with it. It does look like a lot of things: balancing on a beam, jumping from rock to rock, climbing a tree. We often associate risk …

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We, the adults, are so often the boundary-setters, the definers of the safe zones, the keepers of the time and of the rules. “Hold my hand while we cross the street,” “don’t run with scissors,” “put that stick down,” “go down the slide instead of up the slide,” “put your clothes back on.” It seems …

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