Mary Jackson was careful in how she explained the activities - what, how and why - and in addressing the safety aspects of fire and heat. Risks exist in life and responsible practitioners, in partnership with parents, need to help children learn how to keep themselves safe.
We do not deal with road safety by spending 'vast amounts of money' telling children to keep away from roads. We help them learn how to handle themselves as pedestrians and bike riders.
The current young generation is not well served by initiatives that make adults so desperately anxious that they are over-protected. Ironically, when there is poor practice in early years - rigid planning and developmentally inappropriate expectations and methods - the consequence is that young children are under-protected in terms of their intellectual and emotional development.
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