Pickles by Brian Crane for February 28, 2018

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I’d be the clumsy kid who falls over that piece of tire.

Oh for heaven’s sake. I’ll bet not many kids go over there.

I’m surprised they left that dirty old tire there. Won’t somebody think about the children?!?!

That slide looks like the Statue of Liberty at the end of Planet of the Apes.

I really DID like the teeter totter the best…

I really DID like the teeter totter the best…

In today’s English SAFETY is spelled L I A B I L I T Y!

Why do I see this ending with Earl finding a way to give Nelson a “true” playground experience and Earl ending up getting hurt?

Blessedly, helicopter parenting hasn’t landed in Ecuador – yet. We have a plethora of parks that have lots and lots of different things for kids to climb, swing on, slide down, explore and just have fun, being kids.

My local park has seesaws, swings, slides, ladders, not really monkey bars but like bars that are diagonalish you can climb up to the slides, sand boxes, those digger seat things in the sandboxes. The only thing missing from the park is a merry-go-round. It recently had a remodel too so it’s not like these are just old stuff no one’s bothered to take out yet.

It’s our snowflake society invented by the left. Personal responsibility? No, it’s the governments job.

Better take the slide out too. It could be a tripping hazard.

The slide at my grade school playground [60 years ago] seemed a mile high. We climbed the steps and slid down so many times there was a divot in the dirt at the bottom. That made it even more fun after a rain when the hole filled with muddy water. We also used the height to launch balsa gliders, paper airplanes and green army men with handkerchief parachutes. And after a snow the kid on the slide was a perfect moving target for snowballs.

I’ve seen some pretty inventive structures at playgrounds recently including one I swear is a tensegrity toy enlarged to kid size.

Only one kid allowed on the playground at a time. Because kids are the most dangerous things on a playground. (Uh oh. Some school administrator is going to want to implement that rule).

People seem to go overboard with Health & Safety nowadays.

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These days, the motto of playgrounds might as well be “Safety first, fun last.” It’s ridiculous how overprotective people are.

Not very kid friendly but then again children can be harmful to each other.

It’s not much of a playground unless there’s a retired fire department pumper truck and the carcass of a Lockheed F-94 Starfire to play on.

We’ve just opened a new playground in my town. Swings, a slide, a tugboat towing a log “jungle gym” that can all be climbed on… The kids are loving it — I hope they get to keep it!

Perfect timing. News item today, Swings mysteriously installed around San Francisco. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/a-mysterious-group-just-installed-50-swings-around-san-francisco/ar-BBJEOmh?li=BBnb7Kx

In our local park, they removed all the trees too…wouldn’t want some kid climbing one and falling down.