Too Safe for Their Own Good? - Softcover

Jennie Lindon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870985532 ISBN 13: 9781870985536

Publisher: National Children's Bureau, 1999

Synopsis

Young children have a limited understanding of the risks surrounding them: they fall over, bang their heads, scrape their knees and worse. Parents and practitioners can try to create a risk-free environment, but this can reduce children's chances to to learn about risk and how to judge new situations.

This bestselling guide shows how adults can share their own skills with young children to promote understanding of safety in a stimulating way. It covers key areas such as: putting risk into perspective; how children learn to take care of themselves; supporting children after accidents and avoiding preventable accidents; and working in partnership with parents. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect current practice, featuring new material on risk-benefit analysis and the importance of outdoor experiences.

Too Safe for Their Own Good? will support any practitioner working with children under the age of 8 with the guidance they need to offer enough challenge to benefit children, and to avoid over-protection or careless practice.

About this title

Book Description

Bestselling guide showing how parents and practitioners can offer children adventure and challenge without risking their safety

About the Author

Jennie Lindon is a chartered psychologist and early years consultant. She has run her own training and consultancy business for most of her professional career and has specialised in working with services for children and their families, in particular children under five years old. She has written over 30 books, and is committed to writing about best practice that shows active respect for the needs and perspective of children and young people.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Children's Bureau
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1870985532
• ISBN 13: 9781870985536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72