Our attitude is killing our kids

Redbedrock wrote: A couple of months ago we were being told we protected out kids too much and were raising a bunch of nancies, now we're not doing enough....who can win?

I do agree to a certain extent.  I think it is good for children to learn by making mistakes.  Michaela spends much of summer with a stubbed toe or grazed knee (then again after she got cellulitis which spread frighteningly fast I now always put savalon on cuts).

I think the article may also be aimed more towards other riskier things.  I hate to single out anyone but there is a thread in a different part of this forum atm from a mother asking why she can't just put her 6mo forward facing (obviously this mother is asking for and listening to advice which is great but how many others have just decided to switch their kids to forward facing when they're too little therefore putting them at higher risk of a fatal injury if they're in an accident).  Also the number of drownings and children who are runover in their own driveways in NZ every year is shocking.  Then there's the parents who drive drunk with kids in their cars, or leave their young children unsupervised for extended periods of time.

For me personally I don't think we'll do anything different, I think we have found a nice balance of safety and independence.

ETA:  Just read the article again and they're saying 90% of accidents are unintentional injuries such as road traffic injuries, drowning, burns, falls and poisoning.