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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No--just sad at the state of people today.
I grew up playing on the "merry-go-rounds," tire swings across creeks, climbing trees (40-50 feet tall), driving tractors, dealing with chickens, cows, shooting predators, and slaughtering chickens.
I also rode my bike everywhere so that my parents never knew exactly where I was or what I was doing. We built a bike ramp and started jumping our bikes when Evel Knievel was only an occasional headline. I jumped off of house roofs, participated in bike races in our subdivision (at least two miles long and all downhill). We reached some pretty good speeds back then.
Today? Kids can't do anything unless it's online and indoors. It's really no wonder that they have no clue about the real world and the dangers it presents.
Now THAT is a playground.
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Ahahahaha......sez the guy from fruits & nuts land......is San Fran still your playground, bagster full of nuts?
Your mind is my playground, crazy person. What are you, some kinda side German? A shill for Big Playground? Just who are you again?
Cute, though.
Maybe someday I’ll graduate to anonymous blog hating badass Troll.
Because I seen how impressive you are to many on this forum.
Ahahahaha......sez the guy from fruits & nuts land......is San Fran still your playground, bagster full of nuts?I have seen many great slap-downs to bagster over the years because he is such an easy California Qtard target and can say that one is gold. I may be using it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great Tune!
My friends and I would call that spinning thing “The Puke Wheel’’.
A few turns on that and you wanted to hurl.
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