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Is that a child having fun???

Seattle Special Needs Playground Destroyed for “Safety’s” Sake

Readers — A playground in Seattle specially designed for kids with autism, cerebral palsy and other special needs was ordered destroyed by a bureaucrat (or bureaucrats) who declared it extremely dangerous…even though over the course of its 10 year history, no child was seriously injured on it. You can see some pictures from the playground […]

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Climb me!

Kids Protest Safety Rule at School

A rfsbksfbii little child (or two) shall lead us!   Tamati Sagar and Aaron Jones (both 10) love climbing trees, but the practice is banned for safety reasons. The duo surveyed all the school’s parents and found about 90% of them were in favor of allowing their children to climb trees during break times. The […]

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Caution: Playing here could result in unstructured fun.

Plea for an Old-Fashioned Kentucky Playground

Readers: ztnsthkzin This seems like a cause worth supporting! It comes to us from a reader in Kentucky. – L. Save Jacobson Playground         There’s a wonderful playground at Jacobson Park in Lexington, Kentucky.  It’s a “creative playground,” so named because (obviously) it encourages children to be creative in their play.  Sure, […]

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When we can sue anytime a child gets hurt, schools and park districts have to defend themselves.

How Lawsuits Have Changed Childhood…and America

Reader zahsidrhfd — Welcome to the wisdom of Philip Howard, the lawyer, intellectual, and founder of Common Good, whose book “Life Without Lawyers” opened my eyes to how we got so risk-averse. Here’s that whole book boiled down, more or less, in a recent blogpost by Howard. It explains how we got to the point […]

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Someday kids will play beyond clip art!!

Start Now! Organize a Weekly “Fun Sports” Day

Readers — Sometimes I can’t believe how hard it is for kids to find anyone to play with outside.  Some days my sports-loving son, now 15, still comes straight home, only because all the other kids were doing that, too. So — here’s sfdnnaznty an alternative you might want to try: Rather than relying on parents to […]

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A sign of the (play)  times.

Yes, This is a Real Sign at a Real School’s Playground

Readers: This comes to us from a Pennsylvania boy’s dad, who tells us it’s not a joke — it’s the sign right before you go out to the playground at his son’s after-care program at an elementary schoolI think the kids were insructed to write down the rules. Sure sounds fun! – L

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Mind-boggling SENSE About Play, Injuries & Rules

Mind-boggling SENSE About Play, Injuries & Rules

Readers, once in a while – if you ignore the school safety drills involving real helicopters and the school boy suspensions involving imaginary guns  – you can feel like things are going in exactly the right direction. This is one of those moments. Look at this article, “Call dnyrahfdhh to Ditch Red Tape on Playtime […]

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