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No bubble wrap for me

            "You can't do that!"  "It's not safe!"  As I read this comment, I must confess, I laughed.  They were referring to allowing a child to have a monkey bar set up in a hallway of the house.  When I got done laughing, I had to think about when it became wrong to allow children the joy of taking a risk.  After all, life is filled with uncertainties. That's part of what makes life exciting.  Fun.  I work with fryers every day.  They are dangerous!  Trust me. Driving a car is risky.  Do you have any idea how many lunatics there are with driver's licenses?  I do.   But no one stops driving.  Realistically, I can't protect my children one hundred percent of the time.  When I was growing up, I played outside, explored the woods, walked on beams in a barn all unsupervised.  Guess what? I lived to tell about it.  We had boundaries, like no playing in the road,  tell people where you are going.  But . . . We were allowed to climb trees, or cam