Shannon Proudfoot of Canwest News Service reported on Tulley's parenting philosophy:
"It really started as a snowball of observations that my friends' children were not having the kind of childhood that I did or even they did," says [Tulley]. "It got me thinking about how we become competent and where in the last 30 years we changed our definition of what kids are capable of."
The book's title is "deliberately provocative," he says, and it is meant as both a guidebook for fretful parents who want to loosen up and a "call to action for over-protected children," with instructions on safe ways to experiment with dangerous things.
"We create a false impression in our minds that children are in peril all the time and everywhere, when in fact, according to the most recent studies, this is the safest time in history for children," he said. "There couldn't be a better time to be running around outside playing."
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