Reflections on Chapter 3 of "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt questions why parents are more anxious about outdoor safety than about their children's access to unsafe sites on the internet.
This chapter discusses how children who play indoors become risk-averse and miss out on learning to calibrate risk through outdoor play, where they might suffer small injuries such as cuts and grazes.
Haidt says that Outdoor play encourages children to be in discovery mode, exploring and learning from their environment. The chapter tracks the rise of fearful parenting and the emergence of 'campus culture,' in universities, providing a thought-provoking analysis.
Haidt offers a fascinating journey through these topics and presents antidotes to these challenges.
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