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“If You Can Climb Up, You Can Climb Down” by jefftk

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A few weeks ago Julia
wrote
about how we approach kids climbing:

The basics:
  1. Spot the child if they're doing something where a fall is likely.
  2. Don't encourage or help the child to climb something that's beyond
    3. their ability to do on their own.
  3. If they don't know how to get down, give advice rather than physically
    4. lifting them down.
  4. Don't allow climbing on some places that are too dangerous.

    5. I was thinking about this some when I was at the park with Nora (3y) a
    few days ago. She has gotten pretty interested in climbing lately, and
    this time she climbed up the fence higher than I'd seen her go before.
    If I'd known she'd climb this high I would have spotted her. She
    called me over, very proud, and wanted me [...]

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    First published:

    July 30th, 2024

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T3sxEXt6tEvozNJBa/if-you-can-climb-up-you-can-climb-down

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