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Your child’s cognitive and physical skills are developing, and as part of this they’ll be looking for more physical challenges – which can be a challenge for you, too. Your first instinct might be to warn them about potential dangers and remind them to “be careful!”, after all, a huge part of your role as a parent is to keep your child safe. But one of the best ways you can help keep your child safe throughout their life is to help them learn to recognise situations that might be dangerous, and have a toolkit of ways to protect themselves.  

When we say, “be careful,” we don’t give our child information about which aspect of what they are doing is risky, so they can’t assess and learn from our knowledge and be ready to risk assess themselves next time they are in a similar situation.