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Melinda:<\/em> Based on Ellen Sandseter\u2019s research, risky play is defined as an exhilarating or exciting form of play that may possibly result in injury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc:<\/em> And it\u2019s also, it\u2019s an exhilarating play in which they\u2019re dealing with a stimuli or something that they were afraid of before and now they\u2019ve dealt with it.  That\u2019s probably my most favourite part about risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melinda:<\/em> There are six categories of play.  So the first one is \u2018great heights\u2019 which has a risk of falling.  You usually see children jumping off of heights or climbing, swinging, big heights those kinds of things and jumping off of swings, jumping off of high places those kind of things.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next one is actually \u2018high speed\u2019 which is really fun to watch children going down hills on their toboggans and or even on their bikes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc:<\/em>  Can I just add that I love the bravado of a child on the top of a hill on his trike and we\u2019re allowing him to go as fast as he can down the hill and you say \u2018just go as fast as you like\u2019 and they have all that machismo and the bravado before they get going \u2013 \u2018I\u2019m going to go so fast my molecules are going to move\u2019 and they start going down and then they drag their foot and they slow that thing down.  I just absolutely love that about that need for speed.  You know, it\u2019s all in the context of safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melinda:<\/em>  And the risk of that is actually a collision or something right?  So those are the risks that goes with it.  The third category is \u2018dangerous objects\u2019.  So for that it\u2019s getting cut or hurt with it.  It could be a pointy stick that could be a dangerous object or using knives for the first time. Scissors in the hands of a toddler.  Scissors or anything that a child is just not used to using could be a dangerous object.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth element is around \u2018dangerous elements\u2019 that you could either fall in to or get hurt with.  So that could be a cliff or deep water, playing around deep water or playing near a fire pit so things like that.  And it\u2019s really interesting to watch children around those objects because they do know that they\u2019re around and they are able to play around them without getting hurt but as a caregiver it\u2019s really hard to watch that and you\u2019re nervous about them falling in to it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next one is \u2018rough and tumble play\u2019.  So with rough and tumble play that could be wrestling, it could be sword fighting, it could be rough-housing all those different things that come with it.  Well this is very interesting because children get to learn about trust with each other during these times so they get to play with each other and wrestle but they also learn their limits.  They learn self-control, when to stop, when they\u2019re not feeling comfortable.  So there\u2019s so much trust that goes in when they\u2019re playing rough and tumble play or wrestling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc:<\/em>  And then the last category is \u2018getting lost\u2019.  So getting lost in the woods or feeling like you\u2019ve disappeared or you\u2019re away from people.  Very much like all their favourite stories that they read as a child, so just that feeling.  And that makes sense nowadays because there\u2019s the term \u2018helicopter parenting\u2019 or the parents are always, always there.  So I can see this part of risk being one of the big ones that children want to experience.  How do I get that feeling where I\u2019m away from you, I\u2019m lost? \u2013 which is really hard to do today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melinda:<\/em>  Even with infants, when they leave the room for a few seconds and they\u2019re around that corner and they can\u2019t see you, that\u2019s being lost for an infant, so it even starts at a very young age. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melinda: Based on Ellen Sandseter\u2019s research, risky play is defined as an exhilarating or exciting form of play that may possibly result in injury.  Marc: And it\u2019s also, it\u2019s an exhilarating play in which they\u2019re dealing with a stimuli or something that they were afraid of before and now they\u2019ve dealt with it.  That\u2019s probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1746\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}