Ability Quote by Gever Tulley

Children are programmed to seek out risk and challenge, they need it to learn and grow and gain confidence.

— Michaela Strachan

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

— Alfie Kohn

“Real protection means teaching children to manage risks on their own, not shielding them from every hazard.”

— Wendy Mogel

“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

“Parents can raise children who are responsible, self-disciplined, and cooperative without relying on the weapon of fear; they can learn how to influence children…

— Thomas Gordon

Children trust and rely on Us to create their FOUNDATION, their Belief System. It will impact their every decisions into adulthood, into their future,…

— Rey Mellomida

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to…

— Maurice Sendak

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

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A…

— John Bradshaw

“Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding,…

— Jim Butcher

When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you…

— Bear Grylls

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you…

— Lydia Sigourney