Five dangerous things you should let your kids do
Posted by Marc Hodak on January 31, 2008 under Invisible trade-offs | 
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My older son sent this video clip to me as a homage, I suppose, to the philosophy of how he was raised (at least his dad’s contribution).
The advanced version of this lesson is to combine several of these things into a single activity, like model rocketry. Unfortunately, even that is threatened with being regulated into oblivion.
Shakespeare's Fool said,
I’d add: “Play with a REAL chemistry set.”
M. Hodak said,
Amen, brother. I will never forget mine, those gorgeous little Gilbert bottles tucked inside a plain, powder blue metal box. The closest I came to personal danger was when I tried a smelling salt concoction on my sleeping mom. Thank goodness I was a quick little guy.
Shakespeare's Fool said,
Ah, yes. Gilbert.
That was first.
But the bigger one was Chemcraft.