Good parents must calculate the risk
When I was a teenager, my younger brother - who was then 8 - decided to climb a tall tree in the garden. He climbed up to the level of the roof, and then the branch on which he stood splintered. He grabbed the top branch and hung, swaying, at a height of 25 feet above the ground( if you're used exclusively to the metric system, I can assure you that it's a lot).No wonder he started yelling very loudly.
Mother went out into the garden to see what was happening. She must have all turned inside, when she saw the position of the brother, but she did not show it. She just started quietly giving him directions: "It's okay, about three inches from your left foot is a stump of a branch. Here he is. Now intercept the right hand for the branch below. .. "- and so on, until he came down to earth.
You probably thought that after this incident the mother categorically forbade us to climb trees, at least for the next few years;but it was not so. She realized that her brother had learned a useful lesson - that was true.
Why am I doing this? And the fact that children need to be allowed to learn from their own experience, make their own mistakes, and face difficulties. If they never risk, they will never learn anything. Those who do not make mistakes do nothing. Proper parents should allow children to climb trees, gain more examination items than they are able to overcome in their parents' opinion, and at some point allow them to go on their first hike. Of course, miscalculation of possible risk is your task. It happens that the stakes are too high, and then you have to say a hard "no."But one can not always proceed from the worst case scenario. If you approach the question in this way, then "no" will have to be said always, because there is nothing absolutely safe. And in this case your children will not learn anything, and it will be very difficult for them to make independent decisions when they leave their parents' home. And if it is so - you can assume that you have not coped with your duties.
CAN NOT BE ALL OF TIME FROM THE WORST EVENT.