Many Practitioners interpret risk and challenge narrowly in the context of physical activity. Children from an early age are motivated to take risks they will find their own, often quite ingenious, physical challenges and, in doing so, learn about their own strengths and limitations by taking Risks Children who are sheltered from risk and challenge when they are young will not be able to make judgments or understand about their own capabilities. Also Children who learn in their early years to make their own reasoned decisions rather than simply doing what they are told to by others will be in a stronger position to resist the pressures they will inevitably face as they reach their teenage years. It often seems that those areas of experience which are real and provide most risk and challenge are the ones that most children shall choose, concentrate on and most likely enjoy the most. Often children with special educational needs are particularly interested in these experiences.
