It is good that children suffer the occasional fall

I have heard more than one parent ever say that when the plug turns on the child, he will realize that he should never put his fingers in the holes again.

That seems too much to me, but although it sounds a bit odd to say that falling is good, I do adhere to what the Royal Accident Prevention Society in the United Kingdom wanted to convey, which pointed out that it's not bad for children to fall from time to time so that they develop the notion of avoiding major damage.

The children are children. They like to explore the world, touch everything, play, jump, climb trees ... they are normal activities in children that will inevitably imply that they bring a blow to the forehead, a scrape on the knees or a cardinal on one arm.

We cannot prevent them from happening nor would it be healthy to do so. It is not advisable that we have our children in glass boxes to avoid that they could suffer any fall or blow.

Sometimes by wanting to avoid any evil, we protect them too much by limiting their need to explore, to know; we must let them investigate the world for themselves with falls included.

Maybe I am too fickle, but as the person in charge of the safety study points out, it is preferable that a doll be damaged by having fallen from a tree than suffering a wrist sprain for playing video games too much.

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