Run the risk
Jane Williams-Siegfredsen
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Danish early years practitioners view outdoor play as essential to children's development, explains Jane Williams-Siegfredsen There are huge concerns about the extent to which children in the UK are overprotected - discouraged from playing outside, from taking risks, from making choices. The trend, spawned by over-protective parents, is given greater momentum by early years practitioners who, fearful of accidents and recriminations, find it easier to adopt the same over-protective attitude.
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