Children Quote by Gever Tulley

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

“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

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

— Gever Tulley

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

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 experiences in…

— Gever Tulley

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

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 events today…

— Gever Tulley

“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

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 read and…

— Gever Tulley