Posted on 11/17/2021 10:44:04 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
New German playgrounds are constructed to be harmful, forcing kids to negotiate perilous obstacles whereas risking harm in the event that they fall in accordance to a professor of motor growth.
Professor Rolf Schwarz of Karlsruhe University of Education, argues that ‘protected’ playgrounds forestall kids from studying how to handle danger within the early levels of their growth.
‘If we would like kids to be ready for danger, we’d like to enable them to come into contact with danger,’ stated the professor who works with councils and playground designers to develop difficult obstacles.
It comes as Rebecca Faulkner, an government from New York based mostly non-profit researcher play:groundNYC, stated smooth touchdown areas and spongy flooring do not assist kids to learn that their actions have penalties.
‘What the spongy floor playgrounds do not do is train kids that there’s a consequence to falling, and so they will not learn something from it,’ stated Faulkner.
‘The spongy floor actually simply teaches them that the bottom is smooth, which, after all, it isn’t.’
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Can't you do anything right, Vaximillian?
It’s still early.
Good morning.
I was always a fan of the junkyard-refrigerator playhouse.
It was till you showed up.
I'm grudge pinging Jane Long. I love a good 'girl beats up boy' fight.
What’s a “money bar”?
*Monkey Bars.
Don’t know if spell check did that or me.
I don’t know who Photoshops those memes placing those FBI guys from Jan. 6 in different places. It would be funny to put them in a new wimpy playground.
I grew up on the Little Blue river. Was given my first gun when 6. Drove a tractor on the farm. JD 40 to rake hay etc. Spent countless hrs alone on the river, trapping and setting lines for catfish. Milked those dangerous black and white animals since I was 9 or so. Taught to swim by getting tossed in the river.
Worse yet was schooled by those big black hooded women who carried yardsticks.
When the neighbor girl challenged me to hang upside down by one leg I fell straight down onto my head.
Might explain a few things. That was the first time of many getting stitches.
Germans have kids? Who knew? Oh wait…German Muslims have kids. Got it!
That explains a lot about your postings here.
Heh-heh!
Regards,
Make your child play in the street and save the cost of building a dangerous playground.
Frogger game.
The red star on the ground with pointed ends could put an eye out.
I recall reading some studies a few years ago which purported to show that as playgrounds became ‘safer’, that the *kinds* of injuries sustained became more severe in the sense of damage to the head and spine. In a functional sense they were much more dangerous. Even lots with broken glass were better.
The trolls are certainly out. Bunch of nasty replies. Ignore them. They’ve obviously fallen too many times on their heads.
“The Monkey Bars came in....We lost 124 kids in one day!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjhhSCrzMs
I'm with you, when I look at those pics I think, "Man we never had anything that cool to play on."
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