Attention Parents: Sheltering Your Kids Actually Harms Them in the Long Run

I don't have kids, but since I have to deal with parents all the time, I've been following the Free Range Kids blog quite regularly. There's so much on the blog about that discusses many of the irrational decisions adults make in an attempt to "protect" children (e.g. how 'bout this post that mentions a school that banned THE DICTIONARY because it contains the definition for oral sex.)

But this was a great, uplifting post that puts into perspective why we shouldn't be sheltering our children.