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“It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.”

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Author:Warren Farrell

“Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.”

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Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”

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Author:Roald Dahl

“We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.”

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Author:Erin Brockovich

“If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.”

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Author:Alison Gopnik

“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!”

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Author:Dave Hampton

“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.”

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Author:Bob Ehrlich

“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”

“In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.”

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Author:Blanche Lincoln