Reply #95: Why not PREPARE them for failure...

[Solon]

Like making your kids where helmets while riding bikes, or kneepads and other things. They will still get hurt, but REDUCING risk is far preferable than suffering permanent damage due to negligence. I was FORCED to where a helmet on my bike, even though it was "dorky", and when I flipped over the handlebars and split my knuckles on the pavement of the street, along with hitting it head first, I destroyed my helmet, but at least it wasn't my skull. Still have the helmet, it has a HUGE dent when it hit a rock on the ground, I shudder to think whether I would even be alive today if my parents didn't "coddle" me.