Can a child achieve optimum early childhood development without being given ample opportunities to take risks? The ability to walk out from the other side of having taken a risk and succeeded is something that can build a child's confidence like little else can.
For months now, I have been aching to share with you all an absolutely AMAZING blog, written by Teacher Tom. Today, I simply can not resist. Yesterday, Teacher Tom wrote a wonderful post called Dangerous Hammers. In this post, he refers to an article in The Times called Can a Playground Be Too Safe?.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on his post and the article. So give it a read, and speak up!