Miles Bonsignore

You want that baby gorilla to learn by doing.

So if the gorilla is like, you know, on the couch at three, at age three or whatever, they're playing on the couch and they fall and they stub their toe.

That's okay.

And it's actually good because they'll learn like, oh, if I fall in that certain way, I stub my toe.

I don't want to do that anymore.

So I'm going to take it a little bit more careful.

It's like, there are some ways that you want them to play safely.

Now, what you don't want them to do is play in that way near a predator, like a lion or something.

So I think that about that all the time.

It's like, I do let him balance on a thing that's like a couple feet up and try to learn it.

Because if he falls and he skins his knee, like,

That's okay.

And he'll actually learn, okay, I don't want to do that.

But if he's going up five feet, if he fell and he got a concussion, it would be really bad.

So I don't want him to take that big of a risk.

And kids taking calculated risks is actually really good because it builds their confidence, helps them learn.

But this is like a boiling hot stove, a ravine, stairs without a banister.

You're near a lion and you're deciding to play near that.

It's just not worth it.

Oh my gosh.