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Originally Posted by Arctic Rat
It's great how people who will never be a certain age again love to come up with rules and laws to limit what people can do. Maybe if we stopped taking all responsibility away from young people, they would learn to be more responsible.
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There's a principle scientists use called "titration" which involves steadily increasing the concentration or dose up to the appropriate level. It applies in all walks of life. If a beginner at karate tries to break ten clay house tiles, they break their hands, which may never heal to work as intended again. However if they start with wood, and build up through more tiles, the bones in their hand harden to the point where they can break ten with no harm.
The same applies to youngsters handling risk. By slowly titrating up the risk to which you expose them, to match the level of responsibility they display, you can expose them to non fatal consequences, from which they get to stick around and learn from, rather than die or be crippled at the first error. It's much the same as not letting a baby on top of a wall, whereas an older kid having shown they can walk and balance, you titrate up their risk threshold to walk on the wall and jump down. Before you know it they can be mountaineering with responsibility for their own ropes.
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