My teenage daughter wants to take a gap year to travel alone through South America and I'm terrified, but my spouse thinks I'm being overprotective and that we should support her adventurous spirit. We're completely at odds about what counts as reasonable risk versus dangerous naivety, and our daughter is caught in the middle of our philosophical differences about how much we should let her risk for the sake of growth.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parental disputes about appropriate risk exposure for children often reveal deeper conflicts about the relationship between safety and growth.
“Where Are You with Risk-taking — philosophy and psychology?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.