If you know an over-protective parent...

[Sventek]

Send them this link: Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids | Video on TED.com

1. Play with fire.
2. Own a pocket-knife.
3. Throw a spear.
4. Deconstruct appliances.
5. Don't let the government control you (my edit).
6. Drive a car.

[Desmo]

Hahahaha.
Sal is going to love this....

EDIT:
I agree with a lot of what he says, and what a good job he has.

[Pkunk]

What an awesome guy

No doubt most parents are thinking "I see he is a paedophile trying to lure in more children"

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

[Magilla]

1) Probably when I was 5 or 6
2) 12-13
3) 7-8
4) Right through my childhood. A broken toy/appliance was a good toy/appliance to me. Anything with wheels, cogs, motors, batteries, electronics...
5 [your 6]) 10.

Unfortunately, dad was a little less interested in me driving, which left me way behind my school friends. Apart from that, I think I did alright.

[mekon]

Send them this link: Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids | Video on TED.com

1. Play with fire.
2. Own a pocket-knife.
3. Throw a spear.
4. Deconstruct appliances.
5. Don't let the government control you (my edit).
6. Drive a car.

1. All the time as a child, candles and melted action man and A-team toys.
2. Hells yeah, kept me up to date with tetanus shots
3. Done, Dad brought back some from Irian Jaya and bows and arrows.
4. Always pulled apart remote control cars and amplifiers etc, never worked the same again.
5. I once wore a tin foil hat (if that counts)
6. On farms and learnt to properly drive a manual on the road to the Gorges at Kalbarri at 11.

Kids need these experiences or they'll gro up soft and dependent or bored fucking emos that cry about everything or agro little cocks in cars weilding wheel braces.

Child also needs to be shown how to shoot rabbits by Dad and skin rabbit by Mum at age 10 and shown how she makes mittens for you out of the fur.

I loved my childhood. So many scars.

[Cap'n James086]

1. Play with fire. Around 6 years old
2. Own a pocket-knife. Age 13, I cut the end off my finger.
3. Throw a spear. I've never thrown a real spear, I've thrown poles like spears.
4. Deconstruct appliances. Age 10, when I got interested in doing that.
5. Don't let the government control you. About age 17 I started doing things because I didn't agree with the rule/accepted norm having thought about the philosophy behind the actions.
6. Drive a car. On my 16th birthday.

[chew]

1. Grew up in the dying era of fireworks. Have let off multiple skyrockets across King William Street in Bayswater into the park near the library as a child. Bonfires galore.(6 y.o.)
2. Was beaten by a milkman late one night after being told to empty my pockets, he claimed I pulled a knife. A closed pocket knife that was in my pocket, so yes technically I did even though I was doing as he asked. (11 y.o.)
3. Do gidges count? (7 y.o.)
4. Ripped the door of dads car at 4 y.o. by getting it into neutral and handbrake off, then rolling down driveway. Cars are appliances.
5. Severe hatred of authority since beaten by milkman in my eyes, unjustly.
6. Driving around paddock and marshes in Derby at 13 y.o. by ourselves (sister) after dad confirmed we were capable.

[mekon]

Gidges and bits of broken sparkplug FTW