Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play

Re:Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play by randomdata on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:05PM (#39558097)

Not true, or you personally just don't care enough to think about it? Let's say someone literally approached you and your kids in the river and called you an asshole for subjecting your kids to that "unsafe" environment – would you be offended and scurry back home as quickly as possible or would you laugh at them and get back to the water?

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Re:Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:17AM (#39561980)

Let me get this straight, your supposition here is that I'm at the river with my kids and someone else, who is also at the river, gets offended about being at the river with kids and comes and calls me an asshole.

Let me draw a far more likely scenario, so likely I've actually seen it.

You're at the river with lots of people with kids and teenagers of various ages. One kid disappears under the water. Every adult and teenager goes diving into the water, as in full on sprint from the bank into the water. Kid gets pulled out of the water and everyone is concerned regardless of whose kid it is.

maybe you just live around assholes.

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Re:Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play by randomdata on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:32AM (#39562132)

Given the complete lack of situational awareness presented here, I guess we will have to assume someone could straight up call you an asshole to your face and you wouldn't even notice. Not a bad way to live life, to be fair.

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Re:Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Friday March 01, 2024 @11:11AM (#39563140)

you seem to think it's normal for people to walk up to you and call you an asshole.

Maybe you're just an asshole?

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