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Article: 'Risk-averse' parents fail their children, warns head
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 6, 2009
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CHILDREN must be exposed to risk or they will grow into adults
unable to cope with work or grown-up life, a leading headteacher has
said.
Rod Grant, headmaster of Clifton Hall independent school in
Edinburgh, says parents have become hugely "risk averse".
He said it was wrong to remove trees from playgrounds or diving
boards from swimming pools in a misguided attempt to protect
youngsters.
He said: "Today, we live in a world that is fearful. Parents have
become hugely risk averse, so their children are exposed to a back
garden - under supervision, of course - at best.
"My plea is that each of us is, in some way, responsible for
modifying these deep-rooted fears that we all share.
"We ...