Real Questions, Grounded Reflections for Ep 5: How Much Risk Should Parents Tolerate with David and Jenny Brown

Has our increasingly risk-averse society changed the way we see children? 

In this episode, David Brown chats to Jenny about this central question raised in her earlier discussion with Dr Peter Stearns 

Peter Stearns argues that parents have always worried about their children. What's changed is that society has become increasingly risk-averse and our understanding of harm has expanded from protecting children from physical danger to also protecting them from emotional and psychological harm. While this has brought many benefits, it has also made us more likely to see children as fragile rather than capable. How do parents find the right balance? 

The writings that have mostly influenced Dr Brown's works are: Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America; co-author of The American Child: the transformation of childhood since World War II. 

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America;  

https://www.amazon.com.au/Anxious-Parents-History-Child-Rearing-America/dp/0814798497 

The American Child: the transformation of childhood since World War II   

https://academic.oup.com/book/60679 

And the paper: Stearns PN (2019) Happy Children: A Modern Emotional Commitment. Front. Psychol. 10:2025. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02025 

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