A little danger is good for kids
A how-to book by Gever Tulley, argues that a bit of danger is good for the younger crowd. Kids get to touch stuff, observe, ask questions and make mistakes. Getting stuck is part of the process; it leads to invention and innovation.Tulley is a self-taught computer scientist with no children of his own. Why, then, is he writing books about edgy stuff other people's kids should do?
"My wife and I decided not to have children," Tulley begins, "but a lot of our friends were, and I developed a reputation as a fun place to be dropped off. I was spending a lot of time working with kids on simple problem-solving exercises where we'd build something and take it apart."
A lifelong tinkerer, Tulley, 48, noticed today's kids don't have the same freedom he had four decades ago. They don't have access to tools and workshops, he realized. They aren't allowed to wander alone in the woods.
"I felt like kids were missing out on something," the California author says. "I was having dinner with some friends and I said maybe I should just start a school. A friend practically knocked over his wine glass and said, 'I'm sending my kids to your school!'"
Tulley's stray comment became Tinkering School , a summer camp outside San Francisco where kids are encouraged to take risks, mess with dangerous materials and solve problems. Parents who send their kids to the camp must sign a document saying they understand their child could be injured or killed - certainly a dramatic start to any summer.
No one has ever died, Tulley says. "We have never needed anything more than a Band-Aid for injuries sustained during tinkering activities ... The truth is that children, when given significant responsibility for their own safety, have a tendency to be more careful."
Tulley's six years of Tinkering School led him to Brightworks, a new full-time school set to open in September in a 10,000-square-foot San Francisco warehouse.
So in a roundabout way, tinkering and teaching led Tulley to
"These were the 50 I thought were kind of universal and accessible to anybody - a kid in an apartment in New York or a kid in the suburbs," Tulley explains. "We didn't want the fact that you were a low-income household to be an impediment. You don't have to ask your mom for money."
From "climb a tree" to "learn tightrope walking," the activities - and the book's website, fiftydangerousthings.com - also are training wheels for nervous parents.
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