To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul 

As a father of a little (girl) angel, I will raise her to be brave!

I love this. I was raised with the freedom to be brave despite my mother was very anxious but she wanted different for me. I'm now a rock climber who loves adventure and solo travel now about to raise my own daughter. I'll be raising her to be a brave woman as well.

Father of three daughters, this was mind-blowing! Thanks Caroline.

well said. It is never about men vs women. It is always about fear vs bravery. And she really presents that point of view in a great way.

I love this woman. She looks confident and mentally physically strong. She doesn't crticize men or blame them. She just talks about our attitude and prejudice including men and women.

I hope and pray that everyone watching this raises a beautiful, brave, powerful and independent woman, AMEN 🙏🏼

I listened to this for the first time about a year ago and have completely changed my parenting style of my 2 girls because of it. Thank you for encouraging me to let them grow into who they are meant to be!💕

I really appreciate this talk. Very professional and fair. So glad it wasn't a pity party women talk. Thank you.

Yes!! I love this. I was conditioned to be afraid of anything new and out of my comfort zone, and it's stopping me from traveling internationally! Hope to overcome that. 👍🏼

I love this. Bravery is so important in making kids strong and confident. Great talk!

Nicely done. Thank you for sharing. You put the helicopter parents in a fresh light. Girls can box and wrestle, race cars and sail around the world. But let's remember bravery can be practiced in leadership, music and art, politics too. It's about confronting that little voice that says "I can't" as much as confronting all the others telling you so.

I love her spirit, that encourages me.

people think I'm insane and really brave for travelling alone, and they think it's a scary thing for a girl. It's true, we girls do have to watch our backs, but that's everywhere, I feel if girls only knew it takes only common sense and a bit of motivation to travel alone, that it's not a big deal. Most girls including friends and my family, want to wait for their partner to go with their partner or they won't travel. Many times, they make up excuses saying they don't have money or time, and then as soon as they get a partner, all of a sudden, they've got both. I don't think travelling alone is for everyone, in fact, if you have a great travel partner, of-course you'd be happy to go with them, but I'm sick of girls waiting for that "someone" in order to go ahead and go on an adventure. Or people thinking travelling alone should be a last option, when it could be one of the most rewarding and learning experience of your life. That's just my two cents.

I'm a bachelor, and I enjoyed this talk very much. Although I don't know what the future holds, I've always looked forward to raising a capable, smart, adventurous, imaginative daughter. Thank you.

THX, i will raise a brave daughter

Love this. Very inspiring to me as I navigate being the mother of a fearless 2 and a half year old girl... I really need to stop saying "be careful!" so much! PS my daughter's name is Caroline so that also makes this video special to me :)

Incredible woman, she's so inspirational and confident, an example for every human being, male and female.

This is so inspiring. Life - watch me go out there and be a brave girl!!

Closing was very good! That grin worth millions!

Before reading comments: Humanity really isn't that bad. After reading comments: This world can only be cleansed by fire.

I can't believe you actually started with 'skateboard' as you listed the brave things we should encourage our girls to do, if they like..super blessed, started skateboarding with my own daughter and only child when I was twenty-six.:) So rad trying, giving ourselves the chance, to be brave!

Thank you for sharing

inspirational woman.. great talk!

Forget girls or boys, I wish I was half as brave as her...

I will work on my fears, put them aside, and raise my lil 5 month old baby girl to be brave. This video helps.

Imagine being so insecure that you instantly dislike a video because it's about female empowerment.

LOVED THIS!

thx for sharing such a great idea

Dang, this hit home for me. I will do better with my daughter. Thank you for this reminder!

Why would anyone dislike this? She's awesome.

wow, such an impressive woman. I am raising 2 girls and i have taken in so much of what you said. TY

We should all be pro-bravery for our daughters!

Amen Caroline!

Fear is the opposite of faith, our little girls need faith and bravery , I have 3 girls , count on it , I will do my part to teach them exactly that , bravery and faith combined will never be beaten

This talk is positive and about taking responsibility and building up skill - I think too many viewers assumed it's the common blame game without watching the whole thing.

so good!

I love watching your Ted talk. I am a man and I find her inspiring!

A badass human. Inspiration to us all.

that was awesome speech

excellent !

Wow...thank you!!!!🎷🎵🎵🎵🎵

As a tomboy, I was always out exploring with our town's mongrel pack. I was the only girl in the group and often had to make myself an authority just to not seem like a tagalong.

Alright bro army. Hold your dislikes. This is a woman talking about fear vs bravery and not blaming men for anything. Watch it through. It's worth it.

Really good stuff here. Actually see it happening across the board , not simply with girls .

You are very brave

Why is anyone saying that she blamed men? She didn't blame anybody. It's a societal issue and she's simply asking for everyone to pitch in to change it.

Enjoyed this very much. It's not just parents of girls who are overprotective thought (I fully appreciate that's off-topic). Any bravery I have was mainly self-taught ... with a little help from my old military instructors. Thanks guys ;-/

Great speech. Gender inequality starts whenever you tell a little girl to be afraid of something while telling the little boy to go for it no matter the danger.

Great advice. I see girls/women as totally my equal and recognize, that we each have our individual roles to play according to the dictates of Mother Nature, but that does not change the equality. Just like some boys/men are not less, because they don`t want to assert themselves with some kind of physical conquest. Yes, emotional feelings are to a great extent the result of one`s upbringing, even though we may have natural disposisitons to lean either way. Bravery and fear are like heroism and cowardice gender neutral qualities. Thanks Caroline for a very educational talk, as we usually get on TED.

Good for her. It would be nice to see more women taking part in traditionally male activities I have both a son and daughter. I've spent more time trying to encourage and get my daughter to try to challenge herself than my son. It just so happens that from day one, my son has always been physically tough and enjoys rougher games and taking risks. Conversely, my daughter has always been more risk averse. That's just their inate characters. Everyone's different but on average men have a greater desire and physical aptitude for things like firefighting, whether girls and women are encouraged or not. Give all individuals the encouragement and choice to do what they want but don't expect or force parity in certain fields.

Anyone got a link to the "firepole" study she mentioned? Sounds like interesting reading.

Notice she never says your little Susie needs a safe space. Brave girls. Good stuff.

wow

thought this was gonna be another divisive men vs women talk, but its pretty good. can be targetted just as well towards anybody. she's giving constructive criticism instead of blaming someone for her problems.

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im an Indian and my dad has taught me to be independent and on my own in every little and big aspect of life as against my mom. i am so proud and happy , and also can observe the cultural gap in bringing up girls in India and in the US

Listen to her interviews with Tim Ferriss

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This is truly a well talk, not some feminist BS. Thanks for the inspiration! I hope many people will listen to your words. I hope these ideas will spread.

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I thought she was a doppelganger of Alexandra Paul who starred on Baywatch along side David Hasselholf, in the 90s. Turns out she's actually Alexandra's twin sister!

She's like a real lieutenant from the Chicago Fire

This is crazy how much overeactions those subjects still have in 2017... Everyday i'm badly amazed by all the progress societies stil hasn't done

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2:42 I didn't know they invited locomotives in the audience.

Was she an actress on Baywatch?

I inspire Clementine from the walking dead!

Some people don't liket aking risks though. I'm not a girl, and I can't climb, can't skate, and the only adventures I enjoy are those involving a lot of many-sided dice and a DM with a stack of rule books.

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its like girls with courage are a surprise!!! but it's not!!! we have courage and the kids really needs to be encourage to become brave and selfconfident!!

Is that the chick out of Baywatch?

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I think the world is still an unfriendly place for girls/women that parents are worried and try to be protective. But sometimes I think instead of asking girls/women to avoid situations like this they should try to teach them to deal the situation and even know how to fight back instead of hide away.

It's revealing that at this point, 20% of the responses are negative to a talk on encouraging bravery in girls and women. Isn't that awful! We should be ashamed.

Imagine being so fragile you dislike a video about raising strong girls before you even watch it

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Why I never had friends who were girls, generally, those surrounding were always boring and afraid of everything. It only depends on the parents if the soul is weak and programmable. She/he will do as they wish despite having fearful parents if they grow up knowing who they are within. If they grow up thinking they need permission from everyone, well, good luck reprogramming. We don't need more followers and people wearing blinders, afraid of truth, we need more pointing the obvious to those so afraid, showing all of society they've been made to be afraid of that which they shouldn't by parents(the government), both sexes, still as adults. I meet men just as afraid as little girls, it just depends on which parents your talking about and which situations.

When will women begin SpikeBoarding? This skiing sport is open to all.

I didn't thumb down until I realized comments were being deleted; that gets a thumbs down on principle.

Nowadays, parents wouldn't risk with their children's life. They warn them and say !Be careful! because they know that this world is getting worse and worse everyday. And also playing in the risky area is dangerous and risky)) what will they do if smth happens?! In my opinion, to be brave for the women mean smth other. For instance, in my country, if you have more than 3-4 children, it means that you took a risk and tries to do your best and show all your best as mother. It is my sudden idea and opinion, so if I think a little bit more, I can give you a thought-out idea or smth worth.

Listen to this simultaneously *watch?v=iS3imIjfGcM* at 1/3 of the Ted's sound :) enjoy!

No man hating/invalid blaming in this one, it gets my like.

And I am pretty sure this is why I am scared of skateboarding.........

So that's why in the movie Marty McFly stole the little girls hoverboard that had a handle, handle represents a support, not brave enough. Even tough Marty fell down on the hoverboard, he kept going until he got the hang of it aka brave. I guess girls are raised to be chickens.

let them play video games? like good adventure games

The definition of Feminism is EQUAL treatment of the sexes. Not "balancing perceived injustice with further intentional injustice in the other direction."

Hold on, since when is being scared the problem? Isn't the problem reacting badly after being scared? In other words, the key is dealing with being scared, analyzing the fear, not letting it paralyze you and cause you to make bad decisions. Also isn't one of the major differences between men and women across time and across cultures, that men are much more likely to take greater risks than women and get hurt and die far more often as a result of risk taking behaviors?

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What do we do to raise brave boys

We need more brave men and boys.

My mom does the opposite

20,000th view!

no solo para las mujeres, a muchos hombres nos faltan huevos también

Does she have a spoon for a bracelet?

It's times like this I'm reminded how fucking pitiful people can be..

Some of the bravest people I know are women . . . what's your point?

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Gadzooks, a female! Better hate her just to be safe...

any baby can do that...

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