“Licking a 9-volt battery, learning to whittle, riding a bicycle, climbing trees: we may not see these as necessities like learning to read and write (until you need to make a marshmallow roasting stick or escape a mad dog); however,… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Violent crime is at an all-time low in our country, yet numerous studies show that crime is a significant portion of news coverage. By… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Lick a 9-Volt Battery” was chosen as the first topic in Fifty Dangerous Things because we thought that most parents would have already done… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“The best reason to examine the pervasive influence of dangerism is to ensure we aren’t hindering our children’s development by limiting their experiences in… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Children who are protected from every possible source of danger never learn to deal with risk. Lenore Skenazy puts it this way, “If kids… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Licking a 9-volt battery, learning to whittle, riding a bicycle, climbing trees: we may not see these as necessities like learning to read and… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
“Tiny risks are a part of life and most of them can be further reduced (or virtually eliminated) by the simple application of common… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
