Taking Risks Helps Kids Learn, But They Play It Too Safe When Parents Do This
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"If you're in a resource-rich environment - meaning for a child that you're safe, your meals are coming, someone is at home for you, you're surrounded by adults that are protecting you - you'll try new things. And that's how you discover and learn about the world," Seth Pollak, Ph.D., a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of psychology who studies childhood adversity, said in a press release.
The kids and their parents also took surveys on factors like divorce, parental job security, family illness, and moving homes or schools, and the kids reported how reliable and predictable they felt their parents were.
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