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

Adventure Noun 1.An exciting or very unusual experience. 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises. 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

Adventure Noun 1.An exciting or very unusual experience. 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises. 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

Adventure Noun 1.An exciting or very unusual experience. 2. Participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises. 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

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

FEAR

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

Climbing a tree... is an immersive, 360 degree experience that virtual or indoor settings simply cannot compare with... Tim Gill No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society

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

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