Risks and Childhood

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 13, 2015

Is any risk acceptable when it comes to our kids? Amy Fusselman, writer of the "Family Practice" parenting column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and author of Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) talks about childhood risks through the lens of playgrounds.

→EVENT:  Amy Fusselman will read tomorrow 1/14 at Powerhouse on 8th at 6:30 p.m. in Park Slope.

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