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New-Age 'Risk Averse' Parenting Hampers Child's Adult Life: Leading School Headmaster
Rod Grant, headmaster of Clifton Hall independent school in Edinburgh, who thinks that parents have become hugely "risk averse", says that it is wrong to remove trees from playgrounds or diving boards from swimming pools in a misguided attempt to protect youngsters.
"Today, we live in a world that is fearful. Parents have become hugely risk averse, so their children are exposed to a back garden - under supervision, of course - at best," the Scotsman quoted him as saying.
"My plea is that each of us is, in some way, responsible for modifying these deep-rooted fears that we all share.
"We should not place children at unnecessary risk but we must expose them to some risk.
"Otherwise, we risk their future health and safety and that is something none of us want," he added.
His suggestion is that youngsters should not be cocooned from danger, but rather be allowed to explore the world.
"Childhood has never been risk-free. But if we succumb to our fears, our children may end up ill-equipped to live successfully in adulthood," he said.
"Protecting children from the risks of trees, diving boards, escalators, uncomfortable social situations and incomplete homework assignments is almost certain to produce adults with deficits," he added.
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