Great article on kids and risk ...

[Ron Dunn]

Here's the best article I've read in a long time:

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1301.htm

Why? It is talking about the value of risk in a kid's life. Here is the best paragraph:

"Today, crime rates among males in their late teens is skyrocketing. I wonder if that isn't because we've so stripped socially acceptable risk-taking from their lives. I remember, with such clarity, those murderous urges to leap across the eaves, to climb a tree, to ride my bike too fast down a hill. And then I wonder if books like this didn't actually save more boys than they harmed."

Keep this in mind the next time some boring, bleating fruitcake like Harold Screwball, or one of those terribly-earnest anti-everything whinging Wendys appears on your television screen.

[jmk89]

Same thought - slightly less extreme activities - from the London Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle3134301.ece
and
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle3134106.ece