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It’s a confusing time to be a parent!
Many parents let their children do things that aren’t good for their development like play video games, but they don’t let their children do things that are good for their development like take risks and get dirty.
Here are three things that you must let your children do no matter how much it makes you panic:
1) Climb a Tree
Children have a natural sense of what they can do and what they can’t do. Serious accidents are uncommon, but in the helicopter parenting world today, parents are afraid (moms especially) to let their children do things because they “might” get hurt.
Let them get hurt! A few bumps and scrapes won’t kill them. They even survive broken bones.
We grew up in Northern California amongst the redwood trees, the most towering trees in the world. I don’t think we climbed Redwoods, but whatever it was that we did climb, they were tall.
We would climb until we got tired of climbing or too scared to climb any higher, which was usually about 30 feet up those trees (an educated guess looking back many years!).
Yes, it was scary, but it was also a thrill.
