Gever Tulley

We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale…

— Gever Tulley

“Violent crime is at an all-time low in our country, yet numerous studies show that crime is a significant portion of news…

— Gever Tulley

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

— Gever Tulley

“Lick a 9-Volt Battery” was chosen as the first topic in Fifty Dangerous Things because we thought that most parents would have…

— Gever Tulley

When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the…

— Gever Tulley

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

— Gever Tulley

“The best reason to examine the pervasive influence of dangerism is to ensure we aren’t hindering our children’s development by limiting their…

— Gever Tulley

As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that…

— Gever Tulley

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

— Gever Tulley

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible…

— Gever Tulley

“Children who are protected from every possible source of danger never learn to deal with risk. Lenore Skenazy puts it this way,…

— Gever Tulley

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

— Gever Tulley

“Licking a 9-volt battery, learning to whittle, riding a bicycle, climbing trees: we may not see these as necessities like learning to…

— Gever Tulley

Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If…

— Gever Tulley

“Tiny risks are a part of life and most of them can be further reduced (or virtually eliminated) by the simple application…

— Gever Tulley

“Christie Barnes13 has surveyed what parents are most worried about14: Kidnapping School Snipers Terrorists Dangerous Strangers Drugs Scary stuff. And all of…

— Gever Tulley

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

— Gever Tulley

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the…

— Gever Tulley

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop…

— Gever Tulley

“Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.”

— Gever Tulley

“Children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.”

— Gever Tulley

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

— Gever Tulley

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

— Gever Tulley

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

— Gever Tulley

“Like learning to tie your shoes or dress yourself, learning to be responsible for yourself is one of the things kids are…

— Gever Tulley