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RE: PARENTING - ON DANGERS AND SAFETY

in #vlog7 years ago

I remember a man who came from Florida talking about why he taught his babies to swim. Because there is water everywhere Florida, there's no way to protect a child from all the possible drowning hazards, he said.

"I can't just protect them: I have to drown-proof my kids," he concluded.

This idea crosses the whole parenting spectrum - to teach rather than just try to remove danger. Protection is good and necessary, but you have to be teaching while protecting or when protection isn't complete (and can it ever be?), there has to be a safety net.

I've never been fast enough to even catch the garter snakes, Monster Pepper. Good job on the rat snake catch!

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Interesting. I agree, teach and protect.