Name: 【TED】Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do)
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Welcome to "Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do."

take all this advice with a grain of salt.

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade,

but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School.

It's a summer program which aims to help kids

learn how to build the things that they think of.

and I do put power tools into the hands of second-graders.

So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School,

they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.

There doesn't seem to be any limit on how crazy

We put suffocation warnings on every piece of plastic film

or for sale with an item in the United States.

And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp

When we round every corner and eliminate every sharp object,

then the first time that kids come in contact with anything sharp,

So, as the boundaries of what we determine as the safety zone

we cut off our children from valuable opportunities

to learn how to interact with the world around them.

And despite all of our best efforts and intentions,

how to do the most dangerous thing they can,

this presentation is really about safety,

and about some simple things that we can do

confident and in control of the environment around them.

The book is called "50 Dangerous Things."

Learning to control one of the most elemental forces in nature

is a pivotal moment in any child's personal history.

it's the first time we really get control

to those who get the opportunity to play with it.

This is like one of the great things we ever discovered, fire.

From playing with it, they learn some basic principles about fire,

These are the three working elements of fire

that you have to have for a good, controlled fire.

And you can think of the open-pit fire as a laboratory.

You don't know what they're going to learn from playing with it.

Let them fool around with it on their own terms and trust me,

that you can't get out of playing with Dora the Explorer toys.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness,

Your first pocketknife is like the first universal tool

You know, it's a spatula, it's a pry bar,

it's a screwdriver and it's a blade, yeah.

And in a lot of cultures they give knives --

like, as soon as they're toddlers, they have knives.

These are Inuit children cutting whale blubber.

I first saw this in a Canadian Film Board film when I was 10,

And it shows that kids can develop an extended sense of self

You lay down a couple of very simple rules --

always cut away from your body, keep the blade sharp, never force it --

and these are things kids can understand and practice with.

And yeah, they're going to cut themselves.

I have some terrible scars on my legs from where I stabbed myself.

But you know, they're young. They heal fast.

It turns out that our brains are actually wired for throwing things,

and like muscles, if you don't use parts of your brain,

any given muscle adds strength to the whole system,

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【TED】Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do)

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