Experts say emerging research shows a link between risky play and less psychological distress in adolescent years. Could this be part of the solution to the current teen mental health crisis?
It sounds deceptively simple — but ' risky play ' could be one of the fixes to the teen mental health crisisSome experts believe a driver of the teen mental health crisis is the decline over decades in opportunities for children to engage in so-called risky play .
He said The Venny nurtured and protected him from the gangs recruiting bored kids at his public housing estate. But Dr Rhodes, a mother of four, said it's easier to incorporate it into daily life than many parents might think."A risky situation is where the outcome might be unknown. Your child might tackle it in a number of different ways; they might succeed, they might not; they might have a minor injury of some sort ... but they'll learn something along the way," Dr Rhodes said.
Sorenson built parks to the children's blueprint and his ideas were taken to the UK by Lady Marjory Allen who coined the famous 'better a broken bone than a broken spirit' motto."We don't, of course, want anyone to have a broken bone but we want them to show us their spirit, to climb that tree, to run at speeds," Mr Kutcher said.After decades of watching and studying play, Mr Kutcher has discovered the true secret of risky play.
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