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If you are old enough to remember playing on Monkey bars you probabally were not ever strapped in a car seat and the defination of bulling would have been what happend to the kid caught wearing a bike helmet. We also carried pocket knives to school and often loaned them to the teacher.
 
remember when you rode your bicycle without looking like a hockey player with helmet, elbow and knee pads? When you're bike fell down, you bandaged yourself and kept on riding!
 
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My bike did not just fall down it crashed, usually involved a ramp of some kind. Yes got up and did it again.
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I went to a park with my kids and we walked over to the playground set. It was set in a sea of shredded car tire rubber, at least 12 to 14 inches thick.

It was like walking across the top of a trampoline.

I have seen playgrounds on grass, set in a sand pit, set in wood chips,.... whats next.... foam packing peanuts?.... I was kind of impressed.... very very spongy....but there were kids playing in it and turning black.... that has to be some kind of health violation..... we can't have kids getting dirty while playing outside now can we. :sign0020:

Gil
 
I worked for a county park district for 24 years and California probably has some of the strictest safety regs around.The base surface had to be a certain thickness and have a compression rating so falling for any part of the play structure would cause no harm. As the rules changed, we were forced to change structure and substrates on a regular basis. Why not wrap the kids in bubble wrap for good measure.
 
I went to a park with my kids and we walked over to the playground set. It was set in a sea of shredded car tire rubber, at least 12 to 14 inches thick.

It was like walking across the top of a trampoline.

I have seen playgrounds on grass, set in a sand pit, set in wood chips,.... whats next.... foam packing peanuts?.... I was kind of impressed.... very very spongy....but there were kids playing in it and turning black.... that has to be some kind of health violation..... we can't have kids getting dirty while playing outside now can we. :sign0020:

Gil
Really Gil !......:sign0020:
 
We only had ones in a straight line too. We did have a special kind of rubbery asphalt under them that was supposed to cushion a fall. I can tell you firsthand that it didn't cushion it much. This was in 1973.

I used to ride my BMX bike everywhere and jump over everything that I could with no helmet or pads. I got hurt every so often, but never considered it a big deal, nor did my parents.
 
I went to a park with my kids and we walked over to the playground set. It was set in a sea of shredded car tire rubber, at least 12 to 14 inches thick.

It was like walking across the top of a trampoline.

I have seen playgrounds on grass, set in a sand pit, set in wood chips,.... whats next.... foam packing peanuts?.... I was kind of impressed.... very very spongy....but there were kids playing in it and turning black.... that has to be some kind of health violation..... we can't have kids getting dirty while playing outside now can we. :sign0020:

Gil
It's a wonder some parent hasn't sued yet because the rubber stained and ruined their kids clothes.

I like joninomaders bubble wrap idea, cities should provide a dispenser at every park. Heck, popping the wrap just by itself would give the kids as well as parents plenty to do!
 
I heard a commercial on Nickelodeon the other day about the "National Day of Play" What the heck. When I was a kid the only reason I was not already outside playing was if I was in trouble and had to stay in the house.
If I was in the house it was because I was doing homework or eating supper...

Monkey Bars,,,, still have a broken tooth from those things, but never stopped me from climbing on them...
 
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