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Exam One – next Tuesday (9/23)��Syllabus Quiz closes this week��One week to submit CRVAs��Don’t use Canvas to contact us

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750,000

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2019

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2019

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Volunteers

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750,000 Years��Warwick Cairns�How to Live Dangerously

These intuitions don’t even begin to resemble reality. According to Warwick Cairns, the author of How to Live Dangerously, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger. Parents know their neighborhoods best, of course, and should assess them carefully. But the tendency to overestimate risk comes with its own danger. Without real-world freedom, children don’t get the chance to develop competence, confidence, and the ability to solve everyday problems. Indeed, independence, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger. Parents know their neighborhoods best, of course, and should assess them carefully. But the tendency to overestimate risk comes with its own danger. Without real-world freedom, children don’t get the chance to develop competence, confidence, and the ability to solve everyday problems. Indeed, independence and unsupervised play are associated with positive mental-health outcomes.

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Negativity bias��“If it bleeds, it leads”

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Competence�Confidence�Independence�

Opportunity to solve

everyday problems��Experience of living

without fear