Would you let your 9-year-old ride the NY subway alone or your 15-year-old son travel abroad with friends? For doing just that, one mother received the label of "world's worst mum," and another was reported to social services!

In today's risk-averse society, our children lack adventure. We want resilient children, and yet we try to control them in the name of safety, preventing them from being too adventurous. The problem is that if our kids don't do hard things, they don't get to be resilient. 

Justin and Kylie share why playing it safe may just be the biggest risk of all!

• Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son,15, to travel abroad | The Guardian
• Free range kids
• What if...?

• Resilience malaise

• I let my 9-year-old ride the subway alone. I got labeled the 'world's worst mum' | Lenore Skenazy | Washington Post

• Developmentally appropriate independence
• Finding purpose and direction through adventure and risk-taking
• The Least Interesting Generation | Brett McKay | The Art of Manliness
• Resilience

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Related links: 

• The Case for Risky Play in an Age of Overprotection
• 9 Ways to a Resilient Child [Book]
• #906 Raising Free Range Kids This Summer

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