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Tim Gill  is an independent scholar, advocate and consultant on childhood. His website and blog focuses on the changing nature of children’s play and free time, and their evolving relationships with the people and places around them. Tim argues for a balanced, thoughtful approach to risk in childhood: a position set out in his 2007 book No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society  Tim is a longstanding advocate for child-friendly urban planning and design and supporter of the Playing Out movement.

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Author: Tim Gill

Subject Area: Risk, urban planning

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Host Clare Crew outlines the key elements of risky play and their importance to children’s development: height, speed, tools, fire, water, rough & tumble and being out of sight. She discusses fostering resilience, time constraints and other challenges.

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Length: 25m : 48s

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Very active blog from radio/TV personality and parent Lenore Skenazy who crusades on behalf of children to be allowed a bit of unsupervised time to play, learn and grow.  Lenore refutes the fear driven belief that children are in constant danger from kidnappers, germs, grades, frustration, failure, bugs, sleepovers and/or the perils of non-organic vegetables.

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