NERD_0352 Risky Play and Mental Health with Author Frances Carlson

19/02/2025 52 min Episodio 347
NERD_0352 Risky Play and Mental Health with Author Frances Carlson

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Episode Synopsis

In what may be the first ever Nerd episode that starts with a quote from a LinkedIn post, author Frances Carlson joins Heather to unpack her idea that, "Since anxiety is a by-product of an aversion to risk, and young children are suffering from increasing amounts of anxiety, does it not makes sense that we intentionally plan for and cultivate a healthy amount of risk in their play, especially in their rowdy body play? We have to provide chances to climb up and down, jump off, swing around, navigate uneven surfaces, and hang from a variety of acceptable heights."
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