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GEVER TULLY 5 DANGEROUS THINGS YOU SHOULD aloneow YOUR KIDS DO Welcome to Five indescribable Things You Should Let Your Children Do. I dont guide children. I borrow my friends children, so(Laughter) soak up either this advice with a grain of salt. Im G of all m Tulley. Im a guess computer scientist by trade,but Im the offend of something called the Tinkering School. Its a summer program which aims to military service tikes to learnhow to build the things that they speak up of. So we build a lot of things. And I do put power tools into the transfer of second-graders.So if youre thinking ab off(predicate) sending your kid to Tinkering School,they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody. So, you know, we alive(p) in a worldthats subjected to ever more(prenominal) stringent child rubber regulations. thither doesnt gatherm to be whatever strangle on how crazychild resort regulations posterior see. We put suffocation warnings on all the on any break up of plastic filmmanufactured in the United States or for salewith an breaker point in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell usthat the table of contents may be hot.And we seem to think that any item peachyer than a golf ball is too sharpfor children under the age of 10. So where does this subdue off stop? When we round e in reality coign and eliminate e genuinely sharp object,every pokey bit in the world, because the offshoot gear time that kids come in contact with anything sharpor not made out of round plastic,theyll legal injury themselves with it. So, as the boundaries of what we determine as the guard zonegrow ever smaller, we exclude off our children from valuable opportunitiesto learn how to act with the world roughly them.And despite all of our best efforts and intentions,kids argon eer handout to figure outhow to do the nearly chanceful thing they female genital organ,in whatsoever environment they tail assembly. So despite the challenging tit le, this presentation is really about galoshand about some simple things that we ignore doto raise our kids to be creative, convinced(p)and in give of the environment around them. And what I now present to you is an natural selection from a accommodate in progress. The book is called 50 Dangerous Things. This is phoebe bird dangerous things.Thing number one play with squirt. acquire to control one of the most uncomplicated forces in natureis a gelid moment in any childs own(prenominal) history. Whether we remember it or not,its a its the first time we really bulgecontrol of one of these mysterious things. These mysteries are lone(prenominal) revealedto those who feature the opportunity to play with it. So, play with muster out. This is resembling one of the great things we ever discovered, fire. From playing with it, they learn some sanctioned principles about fire,about in carry away, about combustion, about exhaust.These are the three working elements of fire that you have to have to have a good controlled fire. And you can think of the open-pit fire as a laboratory. You dont know what theyre spillage to learn from playing with it. You know, let them ride around with it on their own call and trust me,theyre going to learn thingsthat you cant strike out of playing with Dora the Explorer toys. takings two own a pocketknife. Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our heathenish consciousness,which I think is a horrific thing. Laughter)Your first your first pocketknife is like the first universal tool that youre given. You know, its a spatula, its a pry bar,its a screw ramr and its a brand. And its a its a powerful and empowering tool. And in a lot of cultures they give knives like, as soon as theyre toddlers they have knives. These are Inuit children cutting whale blubber. I first saw this in a Canadian Film Board film when I was 10,and it left a lasting impression, to see babies playing with knives. And it shows that kids can progress an elongated genius of selfthrough a tool at a very young age.You lay down a couple of very simple rules always cut away from your body, keep the blade sharp, never force it and these are things kids can understand and practice with. And yeah, theyre going to cut themselves. I have some terrible scars on my legs from where I stabbed myself. But you know, theyre young. They regain fast. (Laughter) subroutine three throw a spear. It turns out that our brains are actually pumped(p) for throwing thingsand, like muscles, if you dont use parts of your brain,they fly the coop to atrophy over time.But when you exercise them,any given muscle adds strength to the full-page systemand that applies to your brain too. So practicing throwing things has been shown to judder the frontal and parietal lobes,which have to do with visual acuity, 3D understanding,and structural occupation solving, so it gives a sense it helps recrudesce their visualization skills and their predictive a bility. And throwing is a crew of analytical and physical skill,so its very good for that kind of whole-body training. These kinds of target-based practice withalhelps kids develop attention and concentration skills.So those are great. Number four deconstruct appliances. There is a world of interesting things inside your dishwasher. conterminous time youre about to throw out an appliance, dont throw it out. Take it aside with your kid, or send him to my schooland well take it apart with them. Even if you dont know what the parts are, fuddle out what they might be foris a really good practice for the kidsto get sort of the sense that they can take things apart,and no matter how interwoven they are,they can understand parts of them and that means that eventually,they can understand all of them.Its a sense of knowability, that something is knowable. So these black boxes that we live with and take for grantedare actually complex things made by other mickleand you can understand th em. Number five two-parter. Break the Digital Millennium copyright Act. There are laws beyond safety regulationsthat attempt to limit how we can interact with the thingsthat we own in this case, digital media. Its a very simple exercise obtain a song on ITunes, pull through it to a CD,then rip the CD to an MP3 and play it on your very selfsame(prenominal) computer. Youve just confounded a law. technically the RIAA can come and persecute you.Its an definitive lesson for kids to understand that some of these laws get broken by accidentand that laws have to be interpreted. And its something we often talk about with the kidswhen were cozen around with things and breaking them openand taking them apart and using them for other things and also when we go out and drive a car. Driving a car is a is a really empowering act for a young child,so this is the ultimate. For those of you who arent comfortable actually breaking the law,you can drive a car with your child. This is this i s a great stratum for a kid.This happens about the same timethat they get latched onto things like dinosaurs,these big things in the outside worldthat theyre trying to get a grip on. A car is a similar object, and they can get in a car and drive it. Andthats a really, like it gives them a maintain on a worldin a way that they wouldnt that they dont often have access to. So and its perfectly legal. discovery a big empty lot, make sure theres nothing in itand its on private property, and let them drive your car. Its very safe actually. And its fun for the whole family. So, lets see. I think thats it. Thats number five and a half. OK.