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The Balance of Risk and Resilience
This chapter explores the importance of giving children the freedom to experience unsupervised play as a means of fostering resilience and independence. It contrasts safe and unsafe failures across various contexts, particularly in parenting, and the negative effects of over-structured environments on children's social skills. Using the analogy of learning to ride a bike, the discussion emphasizes the necessity of allowing risks to cultivate problem-solving abilities and emotional processing.