The Overprotected Kid – The Atlantic

Great Article that will go against the grain of today’s parenting style. It raises good points, and reinforces the importance of “playtime”. Everything is relative, danger is danger and was around for generations. There was, and will always be the threat of a stranger, the rusty nail sticking up from a broken piece of wood or danger of  the  scraped knee. A new kind of playground, exposes kids to a seemingly unsupervised chaos but allows them to work out the boundaries for themselves. 

The Overprotected Kid – The Atlantic.