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Playing with fire…

...and another 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. Don’t propagate the bubble world.

Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids—and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer.