Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for September 22, 2016

Is there a single seesaw left in the U.S.? They’ve been removing them as safety hazards for decades.

shades of B.F.Skinner. Keep the kids in cages until they grow up.

As a little kid I got hit under the chin by a see-saw but still kept going back to them. Loved them!

I’m not so sure it’s the “dangerous” stuff as it is the parents/lawyers who think they can make a bundle suing for their kids’ accidents. . .

P.S. We used to call them teeter-totters— anybody else ever use this term? (I grew up in the southwest, my mom was from Kansas and my dad from New England. . .which region does that belong to?)

South Dakota used teeter totter and I was aware of see saw but that was during the 2nd WW.

We called it a teeter-totter here in Western New York.

Hrm, in Tennessee we had a different toy called a teeter totter. Its hinge was above and would swing like a pendulum with one rider on either side to push and pull it along the arc.

Teeter saws and see totters…

OK, as a guardian angel, he is very attentive but he never seems very clever.

One of my grandma’s favorite stories involved a wooden seesaw, my mom (her daughter-in-law from Germany) and a pair of tweezers.

this kid needs to find some friends his own age

I grew up in Colorado, and we called them both – teeter-totters and see-saws. Teeter-totter might have been a little more common, but I don’t remember for sure.

I grew up in southern California. I called it a see-saw. Neighbor kids across the street called it a teeter-totter. I’d say it was about even which name was used.

See-saws. Slip n slides. Water wiggles! Rickety metal slides, ring sets, swing sets, and the partially-cemented decommissioned F-86 Sabre jet in the park in West Covina!

None of these things will be familiar to children now, I’ll bet. Too bad.

From my favorite dictionary. Sorry, you’ll have to supply the bold and italics yourself:

tee·ter-tot·ter (tē"tər-tŏt′ər)

n. Upper Northern & Western U.S. See seesaw.

Regional Note: The outdoor toy usually called a seesaw has a number of regional names, New England having the greatest variety in the smallest area. In southeast New England it is called a tilt or a tilting board. Speakers in northeast Massachusetts call it a teedle board; in the Narragansett Bay area the term changes to dandle or dandle board. Teeter or teeterboard is used more generally in the northeast United States, while teeter-totter, probably the most common term after seesaw, is used across the inland northern states and westward to the West Coast. Both seesaw (from the verb saw) and teeter-totter (from teeter, as in to teeter on the edge) demonstrate the linguistic process called reduplication, where a word or syllable is doubled, often with a different vowel. Reduplication is typical of words that indicate repeated activity, such as riding up and down on a seesaw.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright© 2006, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

what is he doing wrong. as long as he gets the job done, who cares.

Remember the playground piece where you sat (stood/kneeled) upon it and it was spun around? We’d get thrown off often onto the concrete and just get up and run to get back on. We called them a merry go round in CT…. Never liked see saws much, fear of heights..