Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 14:12:30 GMT 7
It’s good for kids to climb trees
I saw this article on the net this morning, just after I had a talk with my 3yo son about getting hurt (I gave him a carabiner to play with and he immediately got the web between thumb and index finger caught in it, bit of blood and screaming)
He asked me if I had done that when I was a kid and I told him I never broke a bone but I lost a lot of blood over the years.
Had a good talk about learning by your mistakes and sometimes the only way you are going to remember a lesson is to get hurt in the process.
Pain is a wonderful way to recall things.
We have a couple of longan trees in a back yard, either side of the bar we are building. Have built a small treehouse/platform in one and told him he can climb the trees but to be careful, sometimes you have to try something beyond you capabilities to know what you can and can't do.
I climbed a lot of trees when I was a kid and lost a lot of blood doing so.
I don't care what over-protective people are saying about what our kids should and shouldn't be doing. No wowser is going to stop my kid from playing football "because there is a risk of being injured"
(There are schools in Australia that have banned "contact sports" because of the risks involved)
At least if our kid goes to school here there is not much chance of that happening.
I saw this article on the net this morning, just after I had a talk with my 3yo son about getting hurt (I gave him a carabiner to play with and he immediately got the web between thumb and index finger caught in it, bit of blood and screaming)
He asked me if I had done that when I was a kid and I told him I never broke a bone but I lost a lot of blood over the years.
Had a good talk about learning by your mistakes and sometimes the only way you are going to remember a lesson is to get hurt in the process.
Pain is a wonderful way to recall things.
We have a couple of longan trees in a back yard, either side of the bar we are building. Have built a small treehouse/platform in one and told him he can climb the trees but to be careful, sometimes you have to try something beyond you capabilities to know what you can and can't do.
I climbed a lot of trees when I was a kid and lost a lot of blood doing so.
I don't care what over-protective people are saying about what our kids should and shouldn't be doing. No wowser is going to stop my kid from playing football "because there is a risk of being injured"
(There are schools in Australia that have banned "contact sports" because of the risks involved)
At least if our kid goes to school here there is not much chance of that happening.
