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Managing Risk in a Fearful World: why children need a sense of Adventure

Discover why children need adventure to learn and grow in a fear-driven world. Explore the importance of embracing risk to foster independence and resilience in kids. Learn from experts and real-life stories.

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Managing Risk in a Fearful World: why children need a sense of Adventure

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  1. Managing Risk in a Fearful World: why children need a sense of Adventure

  2. Adventure • Noun • An exciting or very unusual experience. • 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or • enterprises. • 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; • hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

  3. Adventure • Noun • An exciting or very unusual experience. • 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or • enterprises. • 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; • hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

  4. Adventure • Noun • An exciting or very unusual experience. • 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or  • enterprises. • 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; • hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

  5. You’ll never forget your first badger – just as you’ll never remember your highest score on a computer game – no matter how important it seemed at the time. Nick Baker Naturalist & TV Presenter

  6. FEAR

  7. Fear is the most potent force that prevents parents from allowing their children the freedom they themselves enjoyed when they were young.Richard LouvLast Child in the Woods

  8. Climbing a tree... is an immersive, 360 degree experience that virtual or indoor settings simply cannot compare with...Tim GillNo Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society

  9. If we never took a risk, our children would not learn to walk, climb stairs, ride a bicycle or swim; scientists would not experiment and discover, we would not have great art, literature, music and architecture. Lord Digby Jones

  10. I took my little grandson to play in the woods. So how on earth did we end up being frogmarched home by police?

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