Grown-ups will often talk about how health and safety wasn’t even a concept when they were young. This was in the days before helicopter parenting, where children played in the street and adult supervision was a distant notion. Parents nowadays are more concerned about protecting their children from getting hurt, though they have less to worry about – most kids are too busy playing games on their iPads to climb trees.
Adventurer Bear Grylls thinks we could all be a bit more gung ho. “You don't empower kids by removing risk,” he says, arguing that “life is full of risk”, and children should be taught to manage it at an early age.
