Please reassure me I'm not the only DP in the UK that allows and actively encourages my dc to climb trees

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As per the caption... Am I wrong in doing this? I never see dc climbing trees or playing outdoors - am I the only one?

I allow ds to climb trees, I even encourage it in the case of our apple tree. He is not that bothered and would rather play cricket most of the time.

Jumping into the river when drunk is a bad move too. His DM was pretty pragmatic as well.

Most of the town DCs did it, 100x a summer, but only one precise spot was safe.

Oddly it was the one thing my pretty relax DDad asked me not to do. I dived in off the rocks, but not the high wall.

Mine are allowed and encouraged :-) did once have an old lady stop and tell my ds off for doing something so terribly dangerous and that was my frst encounter with the anti-climbers. Was with a friend of ds (6) and his mum today - the firend got told ioff by his imum for climbing a tree. I was really surprised.

I lived up trees as a child and hurt myself too, so what?

As for harming trees, if one were to climb an immature tree, of course you would harm it, but there are lots of mature trees, surely?

I don't see many children actually up trees round here but there's always tyre swings hanging off the really big ones so someone must have put them there..
Thinking back to when I was young there used to be a tyre swing attached to a tree on the edge of an old quarry near us, we spent entire summers dangling around 30 feet off the ground. How none of us were badly injured is anyone's guess!
I did fall asleep up a tree once. Drink may have been involved.

I'd love to still be able to climb trees. I don't seem to be supple enough. I used to climb higher than our house in a tree in the garden. I never came to any harm but I did once find myself clinging to the tree whimpering a bit as the wind picked up and swayed me back and forth.

As a teen I used to climb up trees to think my emo thoughts.

DC1 wasn't allowed on the climbing frame at his nursery when we lived in the UK - in case he fell off and hurt himself. You had to be 3 to use it. He was 3 - but in the 2-3 room not in the 3-5 room. 3 year olds in the 3-5 room could climb on it but not 3 year olds in the 2-3 room.

It was one of the reasons why we moved to NZ - so the boys could climb trees, climbing frames (there are some amazing ones in the school playgrounds), play outside in all weathers and generally have the kind of childhood I wanted to be able to give them. They've fallen off a few things but they are learning to risk assess for themselves.

:o at "emo thoughts" Waffly...me too!

I was joyous the day my little boy wanted to climb a tree! He'd been an over cautious shy boy . Now he's a climbing, bogey picking play fighting smelly boy . He 'a also really happy! P

I caught my 14 year old ds and 11 year old dd climbing the scaffolding surrounding my house last night. Not quite tree climbing but the principal is the same, they made it on to the first level and sat there enjoying the view for half an hour before nipping through the upstairs landing window. I may have climbed up with them and joined them for 10 mins before they came in

Ds has adhd and autism and was completely fascinated by it alll. I knew he would be up there whether i was there or not so i supervised. Judge away, they both have been higher up trees

I'm forever saying "Get down before you hurt yourself!" - My 4yo DD will climb anything and everything. My dh is constantly telling me to let her climb.