ABSTRACT

This chapter is about encouraging adults to allow children to engage more in risky play scenarios than they do at present and to promote confidence in adults to plan for opportunities to develop risky encounters in children’s play. Through discussions in this chapter we hope to convince adults of the benefits of risky play while extinguishing possible false perceptions about safety requirements. Finally we hope to convert adults’ beliefs about children’s risk competencies that will enable them to have faith in their decision making to plan for more risky possibilities in children’s play.