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Too Safe for Their Own Good
Jennie Lindon
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Description for Too Safe for Their Own Good
Paperback. The second edition of this bestselling guide shows how parents and practitioners can offer children adventure and challenge without risking their safety. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JNLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 5. Weight in Grams: 234.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
National Children's Bureau Enterprises Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
82
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907969140
SKU
V9781907969140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Jennie Lindon
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Too Safe for Their Own Good
This is a very welcome second edition of a book that has been enormously popular since it was first published over 10 years ago. The theme of the book - the importance of helping young children to learn about risk and life skills - has not changed, but the text has been completely reworked to ensure it fully reflects current ... Read more