The outdoor leadership field is maturing in its understanding of activity safety and objective measures of risk exposure. Patterns of injury, relative exposure between related activities, and risk profiles per user group are only just beginning to accumulate academic findings from which a collective understanding of managing adventure-based risk…

The authors point out a basic contradiction: On one hand, we want to keep children as safe as possible; On the other, they suggest, learning to take risks is a normal part of childhood and child development. In Norway, research has shown that early-childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners have, in the past, taken a permissive approach to…

Examined mothers' interventions of videotaped children engaging in injury-risk playground activities. Found mothers of daughters were more likely to judge behaviors as posing injury risk and intervened more frequently and quickly than mothers of sons; intervention speed positively correlated with children's injury history and risk-taking;…