Re:The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
by nollbit on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:54AM
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Perhaps your friends parents were over-careful because their kids kept breaking bones? Kids are different. Mine is very risk-averse and has essentially never hurt himself bad. I was the same way as a kid. His friends are daredevils who hurt themselves constantly.
Also, when it comes to "our parents in the past would let us do anything and I came out ok" sounds a bit like survival bias to me. In Sweden, far fewer kids die today than in the 70s, so perhaps there's some merit to bicycle helmets, safer playgrounds and not letting your kids eats whole grapes unattended before the age of five or so etc.
Re:The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
by watwut on Saturday November 02, 2019 @05:33AM
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Or maybe the parents became over paranoid, because their kids where prone to injure themselves and even broke logs multiple times.
Maybe the parents were not so much paranoid as reacting to their kids either doing dumber stuff or being more clumsy or having weaker bones.
Our parents would just let us do our stuff. And although we were bruised all the time only one of us broke a bone once.
In the same time my friend with over-careful doctors as parents broke arms/legs roughly four times. And other kids with paranoid parents had similar problems.
Our parents thought us early on that we need to judge these risks ourselves, while these other kids would be extremely scared of harmless stuff at one point and overconfident in other more dangerous situations.