What's Happened To Playground Equipment?

[MIKETOUHY]

Remember the merry-go-round?

Or what about the monkey bars or slides that were high they compared what you see on school or park playgrounds today?


I know there's liability issues but still it seems they've gotten carried away.

 

[Monster]

Saw a clip of a guy on a merry go round being spun by a race bike.
He was thrown about 30 feet onto a horse shoe stake.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

Remember the merry-go-round?

Or what about the monkey bars or slides that were high they compared what you see on school or park playgrounds today?


I know there's liability issues but still it seems they've gotten carried away.

They were replaced with iPhones and Facebook.

 

[MIKETOUHY]

They were replaced with iPhones and Facebook.

Don't be foolish.

 

[Omeletpants]

Since Bill Clinton is gone no one cares about the kids anymore.....no one!

 

[Guess Who]

Back in the early sixties my brother fell from the monkey bars onto the concrete. Messed his face up pretty good. Those were the days.

 

[MIKETOUHY]

Of course if there's one thing I'm glad about playgrounds is the elimination of concrete or asphalt but the rest it's just overdone.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

Back in the early sixties my brother fell from the monkey bars onto the concrete. Messed his face up pretty good. Those were the days.

Does he post here as "The Hawk" by any chance?

 

[Guess Who]

No. Sadly he considers himself a progressive . I guess that fall on his head messed him up.

 

[BearFanJohn]

Knew a guy who used to sell playground equipment to schools, churches, parks etc... Some playground equipment is no longer sold as the used to be; merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters, etc...are considered dangerous. Law suits have changed what play grounds look like and they will continue to change.

 

[CRM 114]

Don't be foolish.

I'm afraid he's not. It seems like you never see kids out playing anymore. They all have their face buried in a phone or tablet.

 

[Crystallas]

New suburban developments for the last 20 years or so rarely add basketball courts to new parks. The only thing we really see as far as adding places that have high potential for injury, are the occasional skate park. And those are even few and far between.

 

[number51]

The parks in my neighborhood that my kid played in were very nice. They had pretty much the same stuff I played on except, no concrete, plastic instead of rust, and much more creative. I guess the merry-go-round is the only thing missing. The kids seemed to be enjoying themselves, my kid not only wanted to go she would ask for specific parks depending on her mood. Half the time it was 'the park with the swings that go round and round'. Wow she was cute, still is.

 

[MIKETOUHY]

I'm afraid he's not. It seems like you never see kids out playing anymore. They all have their face buried in a phone or tablet.

In your imagination.

I'm not totally doubting the modern day technology has had its negative effects but I go out and see people out and about, including kids doing stuff.

Plus we had TV long before that and kids spending too much time in watching it.

 

[BearDen]

I'm afraid he's not. It seems like you never see kids out playing anymore. They all have their face buried in a phone or tablet.

So tell your peers to stop doing that then.

 

[CRM 114]

So tell your peers to stop doing that then.

I don't understand.

 

[Urblock]

At my daughter's house watching the Grandkids in a nice neighborhood with many kids. Garage doors open and adults doing yard work. No kids to be seen. No wonder we have so many fat fucks in this country.

 

[ClydeLee]

I actually have seen great new equipment of things like rope climbing towers and weird spinning dizzy making things again. I think the regions may change the way things are built.

 

[number51]

At my daughter's house watching the Grandkids in a nice neighborhood with many kids. Garage doors open and adults doing yard work. No kids to be seen. No wonder we have so many fat fucks in this country.

Really, I would think you've been around long enough to know all this "kids now a days, back in my day" bullshit just doesn't hold up. I've heard all about the next thing that is ruining today's children:

Jazz
Rock & Roll
Rap
Long Hair
Movies
Radio
TV
Cable TV
Computers
Video Games
Smart Phones
Zoot Suits
Blue Jeans
Baggy Pants (on the ground)
Metrosexuals (guys grooming like girls)

I was kind of hoping that our generation (boomers) would be the first to not act like kids have somehow fundamentally changed in the last 20 years. Of course they haven't, it's just that every generation of adults like to pretend they have.

 

[Burque]

The one thing I have seen in some playground areas albeit I don't have kids, so just in passing is they have this rubberized material on the ground that feels really bouncy when you walk on it. They had it all over the place at the San Diego zoo.

I imagine it limits injury when the youngsters take a tumble. We always landed on grass pavement or sand when i was a kid.

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