Risky play is associated with greater resilience, self-confidence, problem-solving and social skills such as cooperation, negotiation and empathy, according to studies by Sandseter and others. When a study in Leuven, Belgium, gave four- and six-year-olds just two hours a week of opportunities for risky play over the course of three months, their risk-assessment skills improved compared with those of children in a control group2. In this study, the risky play took place at school, in a gym class and in the classroom.
if you're a 12 year old today, and you do literally anything, it won't have a positive outcome.
Talk to the girl you like? Believe it or not, you're an alpha-toxic male and probably a pedophile.
Go in the woods to play? Believe it or not, but the ground is full of worms and you'll probably catch infections. The worms are going to crawl out of your eyeballs, btw.
Eager to do homework? Now that's my good boy. Just remember to do homework from 17:00-19:00, then have an hour dinner with us, and then go straight to bed. Don't you dare to have fun in between.
I just read a case where this group of young college kids (18+) lured this army guy (around 22 I think) to their campus using a dating app. They mobbed him, chase him to his car calling him a pedo, and tried to kidnap him. He called the cops and I think 6 of them were arrested. They went to this catholic college and I'll try to find the story later. This students claimed they were doing the "To catch a..." trend so it does happen.
Found the story. I'm not saying that it happens to young kids but it does happen. You also didn't have anything about kids in the quote so I just assumed you meant anyone.
Since GP was explicitly talking about things happening to a 12 year old, your example is just not relevant.
Even if we were talking about everyone, it's not relevant. You can find some story about something happening to anyone - doesn't mean it's something that "happens to people".