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Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play (www.nature.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the article:

Risky play is associated with greater resilience, self-confidence, problem-solving and social skills such as cooperation, negotiation and empathy, according to studies by Sandseter and others. When a study in Leuven, Belgium, gave four- and six-year-olds just two hours a week of opportunities for risky play over the course of three months, their risk-assessment skills improved compared with those of children in a control group2. In this study, the risky play took place at school, in a gym class and in the classroom.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

lol no.

if you're a 12 year old today, and you do literally anything, it won't have a positive outcome.

Talk to the girl you like? Believe it or not, you're an alpha-toxic male and probably a pedophile.

Go in the woods to play? Believe it or not, but the ground is full of worms and you'll probably catch infections. The worms are going to crawl out of your eyeballs, btw.

Eager to do homework? Now that's my good boy. Just remember to do homework from 17:00-19:00, then have an hour dinner with us, and then go straight to bed. Don't you dare to have fun in between.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Talk to the girl you like? Believe it or not, you're an alpha-toxic male and probably a pedophile.

Somehow I've never seen any real person face this issue, but I sure hear a lot about it from incels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair especially on that second accusation it probably depends how old "that girl you like" is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Obviously, since being a pedophile literally depends on that.

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