{"id":210,"date":"2011-10-10T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxymoronica.net\/?p=210"},"modified":"2011-10-10T10:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T18:23:51","slug":"5-dangerous-things-you-should-let-your-kids-do-gever-tulley-ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/2011\/10\/10\/5-dangerous-things-you-should-let-your-kids-do-gever-tulley-ted-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"5 dangerous things you should let your kids do &#8211; Gever Tulley TED Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the times I played with gas in the woods, only to have the gas melt through my Mom&#8217;s Tupperware container and catch on fire. You quickly learn how to deal with a crisis, how chemicals react and ultimately how to put out a gas fire. I could go on and on just about what I learned when playing with this dangerous combination, fire and gas <em>(Thanks Mom and Dad!).<\/em>  I can&#8217;t imagine being here today without the immense knowledge gained from being shocked by an old typewriter in my parent&#8217;s basement; I was just taking it apart to see how it worked. Did I stop taking things apart? No way! I just learned to be careful when plugging them back in. The most influential dangerous activities in my life? Playing with fire and taking apart appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this talk from Gever Tulley where he discusses dangerous things we should let our kids do.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2007U\/Blank\/GeverTulley_2007U-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/GeverTulley-2007U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=202&#038;lang=&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids;year=2007;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=how_we_learn;theme=ted_under_30;theme=tales_of_invention;event=TED2007;tag=Design;tag=Entertainment;tag=Technology;tag=children;tag=parenting;tag=sports;tag=tedbooks;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the times I played with gas in the woods, only to have the gas melt through my Mom&#8217;s Tupperware container and catch on fire. You quickly learn how to deal with a crisis, how chemicals react and ultimately how to put out a gas fire. I could go on and on just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ted-talks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}