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Too Safe Schools, Too Safe Families: Denying Children the Risk-taker's Advantage PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chris Whitside   
Thursday, 24 January 2008

Michael Ungar, a family therapist, argues that families and schools perhaps provide too much protection and structure for children, thus robbing them of opportunities to find pride and identity in learning things the hard way.

Read more at the Canadian Education Association.  

 
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