I will start using this more. At home and work.
“One of my children loves playing around cliffs and rocks. Initially he was very keen on promising me that he wouldn’t fall down. I explained the difference between accidents and hazardous states to him22 In children’s terms., and he realised slowly that he cannot control whether or not he has an accident, so it’s a bad idea to promise me that he won’t have an accident.What he can control is whether or not bad environmental conditions lead to an accident, and he does that by keeping out of hazardous states. In this case, the hazardous state would be standing less than a child-height within a ledge when there is nobody below ready to catch. He can promise me to avoid that, and that satisfies me a lot more than a promise to not fall.”