Letting Kids Experience Risk

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4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Protecting our kids is the most basic of parenting jobs, but how much is too much? When we shield kids from anything that’s remotely risky, we erase a valuable learning opportunity. In Episode 32 of Edit Your Life, Christine and Asha discuss the importance of exposing kids to reasonable risk and danger, how “reasonable” differs from parent-to-parent (even in the same family), and how knowing-- and trusting -- ourselves is crucial as we navigate risky territory with our kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby!
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu
0:23.1	original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's
0:28.9	and T supply. Hello everyone and welcome to edit your life. I'm Christine Coe. And I Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the
0:39.1	unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome. Today we're going to talk about
0:44.6	letting kids experience risk. So this episode was inspired by a really super fascinating conversation
0:53.1	I had on the parent hacks Facebook page.
0:57.1	This actually started because this conversation about kids and danger and risk started
1:01.9	because I shared a picture of what looked like a little girl cutting apple slices with a sharp
1:07.3	pairing knife.
1:08.6	And it was a really, it was a, it was a great, great parent hack submitted by, submitted,
1:14.2	submitted by somebody on Instagram.
1:16.1	So cute.
1:16.7	And it was, it was actually quite adorable, this little girl's, you know, standing over this
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