This is the problem.
Parents who won't let their children play unsupervised.
Police who won't let children walk home from the park.
Schools who won't let children experience rough and tumble play.
Park designers who won't let children take physical risks.
Here's the thing: human flourishing requires danger. At almost all stages of development.
What could possibly be the danger from reading in a bus? Even if some car crashes with the bus, due to the mass of the bus, there's little chance of getting hurt, let alone the chance of getting killed from the book or something.
> Police who won't let children walk home from the park.
I suppose this is happening at the States? Can you provide some info on this? The only word to describe the above that comes to mind (at least for me) is alien. :)
You can indulge yourself on more cases here: http://www.freerangekids.com/
In nowadays world there a too few dangers, so we exaggerate what we have, and imagine dangers we don't have.
The question is what should we do about this, and should we?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-my-child-will-be-your-childs...