Monday, January 28, 2008

Gever Tulley- 5 Dangerous things you should let your kids do (TED talk)

In this talk Gever Tulley talked about the 5 things you should let your kids do (actually he mentions 6). Really his talk was about safety and how to raise your kids to be creative, confident, and in control of the environment.
The 6 things that you should let your kids do are:
1.) Play with fire
2.) Own a pocket knife
3.) Throw a spear
4.) Deconstruct appliances
5.) Break the DMCA (Digital Millennium Compact Act)
6.) Drive a car

Gever Tulley is the founder of Tinkering school and he like to build things with kids. In this talk I agree with Tulley in some way and others I don't. Like for example, he says that playing with fire is a way kids Can learn from the things. I agree with him when he talked about overprotected kids. A lot of parents are too overprotected of their kids. Tulley's 6 things, I totally disagree with him. He talks about safety or kids, but a 2-9 year old playing with fire is not safe. He also mentioned that at his school (Tinkering), the kids that attend goes home with cuts, bruises, and may be bleeding. That is not a safety for kids. Tulley may think that these 6 things will help kids learn, develop, create, and control the environment, but to me it's unsafe, and can result in severe injuries.

1 comment:

Michael Greene said...

Fashionate,

Good post but I want to know more about what you think. Expand your last two sentences to a paragraph or two.