[throw_a_grenade]

No, this is backwards. Fun is trying new things (I think it's evolutionary mechanism that ensure kids are learning by default), and once the thing has been tried, it's not new anymore, so won't be tried again. Best thing we can actually do is to channel that, as OP proposed.

If only we had cheap, multi-use inflatable exit ramps that deflate, fold and stow themselves after use. Which is not a thing, apparently.

[theshrike79]

This is how so many fires start. Kids are stupid (it's biological, brain hasn't developed, they can't help it). Fire is exciting. Then they go experiment with fire in a place you really shouldnt -> whoops, something burns down because they don't know how aggressive a fire is in real life and how hard it is to put out.

But if you give them the boyscout/camping treatment of having them light a fire so many times it becomes boring, let them play with matches, move burning logs with thick gloves and practice putting out controlled campfires safely it becomes boring, normal, and the excitement goes away.

[fastasucan]

>and once the thing has been tried, it's not new anymore, so won't be tried again

There must be something in the water here, because kids here do it over and over again, usually ending up they getting hurt/nearly hurt or told to stop.

[whatevaa]

Yeah, no, that's not how it works. Need to do it many times before something is not fun. Just look at computer games.