Protection: Hallowe'en (Book 1, Chapter 10)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Are We Really Bad at Protecting Ourself?
There is something about us that wants to live at the edge of protection. But there is actually a point at which, if you're over protective, you're not protecting your child and you're actually coddling your child. And so protection seems to have this eventual diminishing returns where it actually becomes harmful to be trying to protect someone. It almost seems like you need do a little bit of exposure to the things that can harm you in order to know that they are out there to harm you. That's what coddling is. It's not teaching children enough where the risks are, so that they believe the world is less risky than it is.
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