Thank you, Iceflower
That's a funny idea!
The presenting of the grant took place in the Experimentarium, where there are different interactive activities aimed at children. Right now the topic is how to navigate safely in the traffic. Understandibly a concern for many parents. - And annoyance of the children, who are perfectly able to ride a bike alone on the street without mom or dad erecting a protective barrier along the routhe. Thank you very much!
Okay, there is a track at the Experimentarium where the children can try riding through challenging lanes on bicycle alone, without any overprotective parents nearby. And to really spook the parents, the children can have fake wounds made on their arms, head and legs.
The point apparently being, and mainly aimed at parents, that you need to let your children out in the traffic at some point or they will not be comfortable with the traffic.
- Our children are going to get hurt no matter much we protect them, so we might just as well get used to patching them up from time to time.
Say I, who got very close to a massive heart attack once after watching our son riding across a street, right in front of a car. To say that dad went slightly ballistic, would be an understatement!
In just three years he will be riding a moped and if he is anything like his parents, he'll tumble! So my advise to helicopterparents out there, with children just learning to move in the traffic: This is the easy bit, it'll get worse from now on... So accept it and invest in a first aide kit.
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Today, November 6, Crown Princess Mary has presented the research grants
of The Danish Heart Association at the Experimentarium in Hellerup. She also
visited the Experimentarium's new exhibition. It aims to explain that traffic is
even more dangerous if you aren't trained to manage traffic situations and
that parents should therefore not be too overprotective.
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sn.dk: Kronprinsesse Mary til legatuddeling **
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