Comments on: How to be a risk taker AND know your limits http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits How to make Simple and Loveable businesses Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Vince http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits/comment-page-1#comment-6375 Vince Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:10:21 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits#comment-6375 My parents were always pretty good with letting me hit my limit, although my mother actually cried when I jumped off a 4 story building into a ninja roll at the age of 6. I was born at a time long after the rest of you and grew up during the period where good playgrounds were being knocked down with the multicoloured low level monstrosities replacing them. I think that children just need to be encouraged to use their imaginations while playing and then they won't even require the playgrounds. I learnt that a tall tree can be the mast of a ship, a roof can be a helipad of a high-rise building and an umbrella can be a parachute while playing at a school that didn't allow you to climb a tree, get on the roofs or bring the deadly weapon that is the umbrella. I think I turned out ok. I think the cotton wool is bad and gets in the way of childrens development, but only if it extends to the home. Then again I was bought up learning my limits (or that I have none) and have had 3 concussions this year alone... So maybe we just have to convince kids the limits are closer than they actually are? Maybe we convince them that we aren't indestructible up until the age of 30? My parents were always pretty good with letting me hit my limit, although my mother actually cried when I jumped off a 4 story building into a ninja roll at the age of 6.
I was born at a time long after the rest of you and grew up during the period where good playgrounds were being knocked down with the multicoloured low level monstrosities replacing them. I think that children just need to be encouraged to use their imaginations while playing and then they won’t even require the playgrounds. I learnt that a tall tree can be the mast of a ship, a roof can be a helipad of a high-rise building and an umbrella can be a parachute while playing at a school that didn’t allow you to climb a tree, get on the roofs or bring the deadly weapon that is the umbrella. I think I turned out ok.
I think the cotton wool is bad and gets in the way of childrens development, but only if it extends to the home. Then again I was bought up learning my limits (or that I have none) and have had 3 concussions this year alone… So maybe we just have to convince kids the limits are closer than they actually are? Maybe we convince them that we aren’t indestructible up until the age of 30?

]]> By: Nat http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits/comment-page-1#comment-5665 Nat Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:27:47 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits#comment-5665 Brooke and I actually discussed your handwriting and were excited that we now know WHY its so bad :) I can't really say much more on the subject - my mum still shakes when she remembers the time I ran across a 4 lane highway in the US when I was 4... Never been too good at knowing my limits ;) Brooke and I actually discussed your handwriting and were excited that we now know WHY its so bad :)

I can’t really say much more on the subject – my mum still shakes when she remembers the time I ran across a 4 lane highway in the US when I was 4… Never been too good at knowing my limits ;)

]]> By: Saree http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits/comment-page-1#comment-5644 Saree Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:08:12 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits#comment-5644 Well now the fact I have terrible hand writing all makes sense! Blame it on mum for limiting my crawling..? Or perhaps my two big sisters! I'm also against the cotton woolness. Let them experiment while their bodies are built to bounce and repair quickly - and while they are still so close to the ground! People complain kids spend too much time in front of the TV and playing with video games... then go and restrict outside activities more and more! I can easily imagine what kind of adults a lot of these kids will turn out to be like.... Well now the fact I have terrible hand writing all makes sense! Blame it on mum for limiting my crawling..? Or perhaps my two big sisters!

I’m also against the cotton woolness. Let them experiment while their bodies are built to bounce and repair quickly – and while they are still so close to the ground!

People complain kids spend too much time in front of the TV and playing with video games… then go and restrict outside activities more and more! I can easily imagine what kind of adults a lot of these kids will turn out to be like….

]]> By: Bruce Hoult http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits/comment-page-1#comment-5642 Bruce Hoult Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:17:05 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits#comment-5642 I'm certainly against the cotton wool. But then you'd expect that -- I ride a motorcycle in Wellington traffic every day and fly sometimes hundreds of km in a tiny aeroplane that doesn't even have an engine. Growing up on a farm helped a lot. I started "driving" tractors (steering around a paddock in low gear while dad was on the trailer on the back scattering bales of hay, with a bit of string attached to the engine stop knob just in case) at 5 or 6, and by 12 was entirely capable of being given instructions such as "take the post driver off the Leyland and put the hay mower on and go around to the Smith's and mow the 3rd paddock on the right". I’m certainly against the cotton wool. But then you’d expect that — I ride a motorcycle in Wellington traffic every day and fly sometimes hundreds of km in a tiny aeroplane that doesn’t even have an engine.

Growing up on a farm helped a lot. I started “driving” tractors (steering around a paddock in low gear while dad was on the trailer on the back scattering bales of hay, with a bit of string attached to the engine stop knob just in case) at 5 or 6, and by 12 was entirely capable of being given instructions such as “take the post driver off the Leyland and put the hay mower on and go around to the Smith’s and mow the 3rd paddock on the right”.

]]> By: Ben http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits/comment-page-1#comment-5640 Ben Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:48:45 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/how-to-be-a-risk-taker-and-know-your-limits#comment-5640 I dunno, I think kids should play outside more, be less scared of strangers and use their imagination and play with each other more. My friend Rissa was bobbing around in the lagoon outside their house at the age of 4 - much to her mums concern - but rissa was happy as larry swimming around. :D I dunno, I think kids should play outside more, be less scared of strangers and use their imagination and play with each other more.

My friend Rissa was bobbing around in the lagoon outside their house at the age of 4 – much to her mums concern – but rissa was happy as larry swimming around.

:D

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