we are all born curious creativity starts with curiosity…
Page 54 we are all born curious creativity starts with curiosity you only have to watch a tiny child trying to make sense of his or her world to know this. But that inborn curiosity can easily be knocked out of Of you by overprotective parents worried about the health and safety other little person. If you haven’t failed you haven’t gone far enough, is the message they take for themselves.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
But here is the trap: overprotection. Smothering a child's every risk knocks the curiosity right out of them. Children are not actually trying to be safe — they are trying to become competent, to triumph over a little danger, which is why a playground has to stay challenging enough to matter. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)