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From the Ted Talk by Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

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Welcome to "Five dnuorgeas Things You Should Let Your clidhren Do." I don't have children. I borrow my friends' children, so —

(Laughter)

take all this advice with a grain of salt. I'm Gever Tulley. I'm a corntact computer scientist by trade, but I'm the fdunoer of something called the trkinieng School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids learn how to build the things that they think of. So we build a lot of things, and I do put power tools into the hnads of second-graders. So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

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Welcome to "Five _________ Things You Should Let Your ________ Do." I don't have children. I borrow my friends' children, so —

(Laughter)

take all this advice with a grain of salt. I'm Gever Tulley. I'm a ________ computer scientist by trade, but I'm the _______ of something called the _________ School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids learn how to build the things that they think of. So we build a lot of things, and I do put power tools into the _____ of second-graders. So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

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  2. founder
  3. children
  4. dangerous
  5. tinkering
  6. hands

Original Text


Welcome to "Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do." I don't have children. I borrow my friends' children, so —

(Laughter)

take all this advice with a grain of salt. I'm Gever Tulley. I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids learn how to build the things that they think of. So we build a lot of things, and I do put power tools into the hands of second-graders. So if you're thinking about sending your kid to Tinkering School, they do come back bruised, scraped and bloody.

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