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Show Successful Parenthood By Catherine Conrad Edwards Ass. Editor, Parents Magazine In protecting a child from accident, acci-dent, no matter how carefully you watch over him, you can't take the whole responsibility for his safety. The child must be jects and places so he can exercise caution. Sharing this responsibility responsibil-ity not only insures greater safety for him, but the child is less likely to grow up with unreasonable unreason-able fears. He understands the real dangers and has more free- 5) ... dom of action within safe boundaries. bound-aries. One mother wrote recently that she had made -the mistake of telling her child repeatedly, "You must never go across the street." He became so afraid of crossing streets that he refused later on to walk to school alone. With their second child these parents are following fol-lowing a different course. Instead of presenting crossing a street as something fearful like entering a bear's den or a lion's cage (something (some-thing you don't do even when you are grown up) they explain, "You are too little now to cross the |