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[quote=Anonymous]I’m very much of the opinion that children should only navigate structures that they can do on their own.  In OP’s case, the child was navigating for themself, and they fell… which is part of the intellectual learning process, gross motor growth, and sel.  Parents can’t circumvent the intellectual component: a child has to learn to assess an obstacle and figure it out, decide if they need help, or not attempt, and they need to learn to assess whether they are hurt.  They can’t get away from the reality of gross motor growth: the child needs to climb, run, stretch, work on balance, figure out limb coordination… and falls happen while doing that.  Finally, the most important (imo) is sel: a child has to learn when to cry (hurt) or not cry (not hurt), how and when to self-soothe, how to persist when something doesn’t go right the first time, when to be independent, where they are on the spectrum of risk awareness and caution, etc.  Being totally hands off makes a child too self-reliant and can be negligent… but helicopter parents and caregivers keep a child from exploring and growing.[/quote]

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