Libby Purves has some wise words about youth and risk:
“The current risk to adventure training, scraped knees and general exhilaration is a theme plenty of us have covered in recent years: cotton-wool kids, fears of litigation, an erroneous belief that spending hours hunched over a computer game or in a supervised gym is always “safer” than yomping across Dartmoor with a compass.”
She goes on to add,
“Teenagers want reality and the salt of risk, and to be taught how to handle it by people who don’t patronise them.”
You can read her whole article here.
Amen to that.