“Children are not going to be children for the rest of their lives,” he says. “If you overprotect them and don’t let them take risks and have a certain amount of responsibility, they’ll have a shock when they head out into the world later. This is not something you learn overnight; this is something you have to learn gradually. There’s a high risk that children won’t learn how to behave in traffic and in nature if they don’t learn this early.”
