There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

by Linda Åkeson McGurk

We deprive children of free, risky play, ostensibly to protect them from danger, but in the process we set them up for mental breakdowns,” he writes in Psychology Today. “In the long run, we endanger them far more by preventing such play than by allowing it. And, we deprive them of fun.”