Children are losing out on their childhoods because they are over-protected, an expert on child development has said.
Advisor to the government on child development, Tim Gill, sets out his concerns in a new book called “No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society”.
Not allowing children to take risks such as walking to school on their own or play unsupervised means that children are not developing the vital skills previous generations have done.
Mr Gill: said: “Rather than having a nanny state, where risk aversion dominates the landscape, we should be aspiring to a child-friendly society, where communities look out for each other and for children".
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