I really like this attitude. You can’t feel hurt for kids, you can’t trust that they will believe you, you can’t make them learn from your experience. You can’t do a whole lot of stuff – so you may as well let them do it. Just more safely.

One point though – it mentions spears. Now I can’t be the only guy who has not yet met a woman that can throw. My girls have both meant to throw something straight down the garden and the item has flown straight over the hedge. They’ve thrown balls in entirely unexpected directions when playing with the dog. They can’t even throw jelly babies and hit me across the room. So give a girl a spear? Yeah right. Evolution took care of that one :) (cue the sexist stuff..)

Allowing kids the freedom to explore … will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer.

Go watch Ted. (10 min video)