Frequent TED lecturer Gever Tulley offers a radical concept for parents: Teach your children about safety by exposing them to risk. He believes that experimenting with “dangerous” things helps foster creativity and teaches problem solving by exposing children to explore the world around them with old-fashioned, hands-on learning.
It offers the suggestion that parents can think outside the box by letting their kids do the same. Letting children explore, tinker, and learn-by-doing boosts creativity and teaches them troubleshooting that will help later in life.
Some of the activities included in the book:
01 - Lick a 9-volt Battery
06 - Drive a Nail
10 - Play with the Vacuum Cleaner
24 - Construct Your Own Flying Machine
38 - Learn Tightrope Walking
46 - Superglue Your Fingers Together
Here is some video as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.ted.com/talks/
Gever is a frequent lecturer at TED conferences around the world and founded Tinkering School to explore the notion that children could learn by building real things using real tools and real materials.
50 DANGEROUS THINGS is a great book as we head into summer, just in time for an entire summer break of exploring, creating, and experimenting! www.fiftydangerousthings.com.
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