Dangerous kid's book outrages child experts
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Concerned: Michael Carr-Gregg has warned against a new children's book. Picture: Trevor Pinder Source: Herald Sun
PARENTING experts are outraged by a book encouraging children to make a bomb in a bag and cook CDs in a microwave.
Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), which details ways to expose youngsters to danger as part of their development, has become surprisingly popular among parents.
Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg said the book was a massive over-reaction to "cotton wool" parenting.
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"Young people should be encouraged to take healthy risks and it is in their psychological interests to do so," Dr Carr-Gregg said
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