Just look at today’s playgrounds compared to the ones we used to play on twenty or thirty years ago. We’ve become so sue happy and safety obsessed that playgrounds now resemble a rubber room.
At some point, kids are going to hurt themselves. For some of us, that’s how we learned.
Think about the hysteria with bicycle helmets laws for children. GOOD GOD!!! When I was younger NO ONE wore those things and out of hundreds of kids I knew in my elementary school, I can never remember any thing really, really bad happening.
Heck, when I was younger, we had crabapple fights with slingshots or, before the crabapple “harvest”, we’d just put on some sweats and swimming goggles and have BB-gun wars in the woods.