Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?

Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen

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“…This is one of the categories that are risky from an adult point of view, while the children are more disposed to feel this is only an exciting activity (Sandseter, 2007a). It is also worth noting that this behavior was much more typical among children, and not considered risky by adults only one or two generations ago.…”

Section: Play With Dangerous Toolsmentioning

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“…are common forms of this category of risky play. Sandseter (2007aSandseter ( , 2007b) discovered that children often increased the risk of swinging by standing on the swing, swinging several children together or in other challenging ways, or in sliding down snowy slopes by throwing themselves on their stomachs head first, backwards, or several children in a row, etc.…”

Section: Play With High Speedmentioning

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“…Children experience a feeling of risk and danger of getting lost on occasions where they are given the opportunity to "cruise" on their own exploring unknown areas; still, they have an urge to do it (Sandseter, 2007a).…”

Section: Play Where the Children Can "Disappear" / Get Lostmentioning

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Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences

2011

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This theoretical article views children's risky play from an evolutionary perspective, addressing specific evolutionary functions and especially the anti-phobic effects of risky play. According to the non-associative theory, a contemporary approach to the etiology of anxiety, children develop fears of certain stimuli (e.g., heights and strangers) that protect them from situations they are not mature enough to cope with, naturally through infancy. Risky play is a set of motivated behaviors that both provide the child with an exhilarating positive emotion and expose the child to the stimuli they previously have feared. As the child's coping skills improve, these situations and stimuli may be mastered and no longer be feared. Thus fear caused by maturational and age relevant natural inhibition is reduced as the child experiences a motivating thrilling activation, while learning to master age adequate challenges. It is concluded that risky play may have evolved due to this anti-phobic effect in normal child development, and it is suggested that we may observe an increased neuroticism or psychopathology in society if children are hindered from partaking in age adequate risky play.

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Section: Play With Dangerous Toolsmentioning

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“…Risky play can be placed in six categories (Sandseter, 2007a). They are activities connected to great heights, high speed, dangerous tools, dangerous elements, rough-and-tumble, and disappearance/getting lost.…”

Section: Benefits Of Risky Playmentioning

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“…Separation is both thrilling and scary. It would be safer for them to stay with the adults, but even so, they drift off on their own, and crave for the particular sense of excitement that comes from being on the move alone (Sandseter, 2007a). It seems that the anti-phobic effect of play where children can disappear and get lost is that they can gradually learn not to fear separation.…”

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Risky Play

Kvalnes¹

2017

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We were going to climb a birch, and my best friend started first up the tree trunk. I waited on the ground, to see which branches he chose to step on, in preparation for my own foray towards the top. Suddenly he lost his grip and fell. When he came to a stop, he let out a high pitch scream. As I drew closer, I could see that the tip of a branch was inside his mouth. He had been pierced right through the cheek by a dry branch sticking out from the trunk. In great pain, he managed to maneuver himself away from the tree, with blood running from the wound in his face.Most of the narratives in this book are from organizational life and collected through interviews, but this one is personal. During my childhood in a suburb of Norway' capital Oslo in the 1960s and early 70s, it was normal for children to roam our neighborhoods and explore the world from different heights and perspectives. We sought adventure and excitement, and the adults tended to ignore our potentially harmful encounters with trees and branches. I can still vividly remember my friend's scream and the sight of the tip of the branch inside his mouth. That dramatic incident put both him and me in a state of temporary shock, but a few days later, we were making further daring ventures towards the treetops. Researchers have explored whether people who

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Understanding Dimensions of ‘Peer Violence’ in Preschool Settings: An Exploration of Key Issues and Questions

Brown

2010

Children Behaving Badly?

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Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play?

Cited by 250 publications

References 17 publications

Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences

Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences

Risky Play

Understanding Dimensions of ‘Peer Violence’ in Preschool Settings: An Exploration of Key Issues and Questions

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