Starting them young - Telegraph The claim of the Jesuits was "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." But give your four-year-old to Dedham Primary School in Essex and it will give you a fully trained health and safety inspector, complete with hard hat and clipboard. While the desire to prevent needless accidents in the playground is commendable, training under-fives to perform risk assessments before they run around outside must have consequences - as their parents will no doubt discover. That shoe, mummy, is a trip hazard. This soup came with no caution that it is piping hot. Daddy, you'll need to pick those wet leaves off the drive tonight, before one of us breaks a leg. Small children love nothing more than the chance to be bossy, officious and intransigent with their elders - and now they can get away with calling it homework. Compensation claims cannot be far away.