Another Phillips' Household Disagreement Poll

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Originally Posted by CC1

Life is all about risk management. There is pretty much always risk involved in anything fun or worthwhile. The risk does not seem excessive in this case so I say go for it.

If we try to hard to protect our kids from risk we actually hurt htem by limiting their experiences.

Many years ago a 16 year old niece of mine was visiting for the summer and about to go to church camp when a 16 year old relative of hers was killed in a tragic car accident. My SIL was so distraught she made her daughter come home and not go to camp because the camp had riding horses and a swimming pool and she was afraid her daughter would get hurt. As fate would have it right after arriving home my niece was the passenger in a car involved in an accident and broke her back. She would have been much safer riding those horses and swimming at camp!

Good thoughts on risk management. Fear is the enemy progress and reward. Fear is overcome with risk management.