There is now a book - "50 dangerous things". its on Amazon (no aff).

Anyone who thought about it for a short while could come up with as good a list, I guess. I'm curious to know what the other 45 are.

I'm really becoming fond of "experiential childhoods".

It wasn't long ago that my daughter was playing with some matches. We were really unhappy about this. We responded by showing her some youtube videos of christmas tree fires and some modestly disturbing pictures of burn victims. This was so that she could understand the gravity of the situation.

I don't remember my Dad being able to EXPLAIN a negative consequence as well as the EXPERIENCE. But videos are a close surrogate.

Anyway I do think that its a good idea to expose children to knives and fire sooner rather than later.

Thats why I'm wondering what the other 45 items are in the book... you can't learn experience. I want to know if the book has some good ideas for some modestly dangerous experiences for young children to work through in a controlled environment.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.