Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

Founder of the Tinkering School Gever Tulley presents 50 activities — from licking a 9-volt battery to throwing a spear — that involve genuine risk and genuine learning. A spirited and beautifully designed argument that protecting children from all risk is itself dangerous, and that calculated, child-led risk-taking builds competence, confidence, and resilience in ways that safety-bubble childhoods cannot.