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Why parents fear children's natural play instincts

My kids spend hours playing elaborate games in our backyard maple tree and I catch myself wanting to tell them to come inside where it's safe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Modern anxiety about safety conflicts with intuitive knowledge that children need wild spaces to develop properly.

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