Why safe playgrounds aren't great for kids
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2019
- There's a case for making playgrounds riskier.
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The stereotypical modern playground - with its bright colors and rubberized flooring - is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids.
US playground designers spent decades figuring out how to minimize risk: reducing heights, softening surfaces, and limiting loose parts. But now, some are experimenting with creating risk. A growing body of research has found that risky outdoor play is a key part of children’s health, promoting social interactions, creativity, problem-solving, and resilience.
Some communities are even experimenting with “adventure playgrounds,” a format with origins in World War II Denmark, where bomb sites became impromptu playgrounds. Filled with props like nails, hammers, saws, paint, tires, and wood planks, these spaces look more like junkyards than play spaces - and parents are often kept outside of the playground while children are chaperoned by staff. Now, that question of keeping children safe versus keeping children engaged is at the heart of a big debate in playground design.
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I can guarantee that when I was on a playground as a kid I did not play safely.
"Hey wanna see who can jump off the swings the farthest"
I remember always burning myself on the metal slide when it was sunny outside
thats the point...
Derp Man did that once and got a very bad scab
That is safe tho
This is explicitly addressed in the video at 3:05
"If presented with an overly safe space, they end up seeking thrills and danger that the design didn't account for." This is the exact reason we had competitions for who could jump off the swing from the highest point
And why we would climb up slides or climb on the railing.
don’t forget crossy road
Dont forget climbing on the roof of the playground
My classmate went so high on the string that he looped and fell on his back. He couldn't breathe and was taken to hospital. He survived without major injuries though
@@americanyoungins1678 he could have died but ok...
Kids on modern playgrounds: *slides off the slide, dust themselves off, run to their mom for ice cream because they bored*
Kids on adventure playgrounds: *Trench warfare intensifies*
Yeah I wish playgrounds can be more exciting
@@amxthyst_spell1662 sadly, most parents nowadays prefer the safety of their kids over fun. While it's not necessarily bad, majority votes decide an alignment of things.
More like: Kids on modern playgrounds get decapitated from running through people on swings like it’s a Indiana Jones dungeon
I mean, to be fair. The idea of adventure playgrounds *did* come from a post-war environment
I was in a massive 'Adventure Playground' in Amsterdam and there was five story buildings with corridors and door purely built by kids and teenagers, they had groups who would compete on the best base and have wars, it was great.
“Oh boy! A steering wheel in the middle of a wall! This will entertain me for hours!”
Lol
No one ever played with that, you sit there for 5 secs then go next
I actually played with that.
@@phantomaviator1318 was it fun lol
@@phantomaviator1318 what do you do on it though?
it’s all fun and games till someone screams “hammer time”
Tooth and nail baby
this is an underrated comment
Stardust Sydney bans everyone
“I’m dope on the floor and I’m magic on the mic”
It’s all fun and games until somebody wants to re-create the Easter story
This explains why kids tend to run up slides
Then they ban that too
i always used to try to find new ways to get around, but then they say to not do that 💆💆
And go on the out side of the high bridge
or climb on top of the roof
yea, but then they say not to do that, and then wonder why kids hate going to playgrounds/recess at school.
0:41 that kid is a hero. He isn't putting a nail into the wood, he's just hammering the bare wood. I don't know why, but I find this extremely funny.
comparable to the kid at 0:15 lol
Gotta get it in the perfect position, it was crooked in the wrong way
Hahahaha
Understand what you're saying but how is he a hero ?
@@FireAlarmFreakit looks like he’s photoshopped in (no shadow, 3x the size of everyone else. Why would they do that though
We definitely tried to make our “safe” playground more risky as kids by climbing on top of the slides, bars, roofs. They definitely have a point here
I've gotten hurt from "Safe" playgrounds more than the non safe ones. The designs are always so weird and I hit my head on everything.
@@SoupyMittens fr, I think they’re made for like toddlers or something because they’re always so small
As a teen, me and my friend always go to a large playground and climb around the tall 3 story part of it and test our agility.
@@Mobobble bro I can never find big playgrounds 😔
@@arissamazumder I mean the playground I go to isn't even that big, it's just this one part of it that has multiple stories. I mean I live in a pretty nice town so maybe that's why
"Kids respond well to being taken seriously" is a very wise observation. If I have kids I really don't want to be a helicopter parent.
Nice
I wish you luck in achieving that dream (good luck with your spouse tho 😏)
It's soooo hard. I have to keep reminding myself I live close to a hospital. I only try to stop my son from doing things that will instakill him.
🥺🥺
@@LiLiKOiOiOi oh hey army 👋😉
"you are tricking kids to build their own playgrounds"
Me: *m i n e c r a f t*
SyazTYT's other uploads 😅
“Tricking kids to build their own playgrounds” that’s, that’s the fun of it
@@daveroll6463 i would actually wanna go in these playgrounds
"You are tricking kids to build their own playgrounds"
That's.. the point
@@daveroll6463 congratulations, the joke man has located the point
In the Netherlands, "natural playgrounds" have started sprouting recently. They're essentially small pieces of land, landscaped with small hills, water with stepping stones in them, small wooden bridges, winding paths, and a funicular. They're all about getting kids to go on adventures and figure it out themselves, rather than creating a fixed playground. They're also esthetically really pleasing as they're a small piece of nature.
And they sound a lot safer but still creative and free
That sounds like a good balance
Yeah, I was in a massive 'Adventure Playground' in Amsterdam and there was five story buildings with corridors and door purely built by kids and teenagers, they had groups who would compete on the best base and anyone could make there own or join. Probably some of the best fun I've had in a playground.
Natural playgrounds are just slightly mor mazelike-playgrounds. They are fun to explore once and good for playing tag or hide and seek, but nothing compared to a real adventure playground.
I made a comment that said how cool it would be to bring a freind or two (when you're a little more grown, like teenager age) and get into some casual roleplay. This sounds even better, being more natural and such. I remember in middle school I had the best time playing in the woods behind my house, I even made a little roof out of sticks that usually held together pretty well, unless there was a big storm or something. My two best freinds and I would go nuts designing various role playing scenarios in the huge field at our school. I feel like a large (like the size of a supersize Walmart parking lot huge, I mean *mega*) woodsy area dedicated to older kids (teens) to explore would be great, also maybe with some of the stuff the adventure playgrounds have, wood nails tires and such. This was a long comment, but I just feel like this might be a cool idea
"A risk is different from hazard"
He's got a point and parents always say "it's too risky"
Rather than "it's hazardous"
What's the difference between risk and hazard?
@@pedrosso0 HE SAID IN THE VIDEO
@Pedrosso risk is controllable; the higher you climb a tree, the riskier it is. Hazard is uncontrollable; finding a weak rotten branch while climbing a tree is a hazard
“Safe playgrounds“
*me climbing on top of the play set and walking on rails*
Jimmy Keochinda I really tried hard to play unsafe 😂😂, too. The other stuff was boring.
@@LittleSkyful I would climb on top of the tube slides
Jimmy Keochinda thats exactly what they were talking about. Even in those safe playgrounds you still are making risky choices.
*heartbeat beats faster*
same, I'd find the highest point i could and jump off
The problem is the people designing playgrounds are focusing more on looks than play. Honestly modern play grounds look more like modern art then play grounds.
Underrated comment
That is so true just looking at them makes me bored
I guess who ever pays for the playground is more concerned with aesthetics than fun and play . . .
I was at a rest stop and the playground was concrete arches and bumps
@@burnedcalculat0r566 Ikr, near my house, theres a old one and they only add nice stuff than boring stuff
I had a 'safe' playground at my school as a kid. I decided to come up with an obstacle course to use every single section of it incorrectly. No injuries, just a lot of flak from teachers and administrators.
Same
Next to my school there was this field that we called “paddock” and we went out to it every day for an hour. In paddock there was a whole bunch of stuff; tires, planks, crates, trees, random bits of broken pottery, tarps, and branches. The kids could build whatever they wanted like dens and obstacle courses and our class even came up with a system for money, the broken pottery shards, the cooler the shard, the more valuable. Sometimes kids would bring stuff from home, like old bedsheets, and we’d make hammocks out of them. It was a really fun experience and I 100 percent recommend that schools have some form of adventure playgrounds.
im now jelous
@@tonykhang1984 me too that sounds fun ngl
This is almost exactly like my childhood
Fr
i tried to bring a bedsheet to use as a hammok of the moneky bars and i was shut down by the teahcers right away
as a kid i would literally want to play more in a ditch, creek or a field with rocks and planks rather than at a playground with plastic toys
Ngl same
Yeah I rarely went to plastic playground when i was child. I would rather climbing planks nailed into trees at my neighbor's yard lol
Same
Yeah I reader trying to make Ramos out of 2x4s and logs to make bike jumps
Same lol
Here's the thing:
Theres gonna be that one kid who hogs the hammer and threatens they will hit anyone if someone touches it
moyee 64 and when know that’ll happen
maybe the city, similar to a lifeguard could employ or have a volunteer supervisor one who could show them how to properly use a hammer and nails.
@@logat1847 or the kid that stabs people. ( me)
Me with Great grandfathers M1Manual: Are you challenging me?
Or some mental kid throws a brick whenever someone comes close to his brick fort.
I just love that this woman saw kids playing in the wreckage of war and instead of just cringing at how sad that was she saw the full potential and decided to capture that spirit of discovery in spite of danger by intentionally setting up spaces in more wreckage to inspire more kids and ultimately encourage the creativity of the next generation. Seriously, props to her for doing something that apparently had a bigger impact than she likely originally thought.
I'm turning 18 this month, and I can sagely say that if I had an adventure playground near me, *my computer would get a lot less use.*
Normal playgrounds are only fun when you're a certain age, and with other people.
Plus, risk is fun, and I remember when I was younger, doing something risky successfully was extremely fun! Like jumping off the swing as high as you could go, then watching your friend do it and twisting his ankle in the process.
There was also running up slides, and once that got too easy, climbing the long tube ones, just for someone to unexpectedly come down it, sweeping you off your feet, and sliding all the way down.
When you put a kid in a 0 risk environment, they'll attempt to add back as much risk as possible, and then some.
But give a kid something obviously dangerous, and they'll attempt to reduce it
Stop blaming ur technology addiction on this
@@Luciaa2763 I mean it would help if there was something to do outside
@@Luciaa2763 If you could give some suggestions on what you do outside it would be appreciated
Jesus loves us all soo much that he sacrificed himself for our salvation:DDDD
kids should be "safely endangered"
in other words, the play should allow them to take risks, but none of the risks should be inherently life-threatening
MaximKat I think they meant more on “building a three story tower out of spare parts” rather than a rusty nail
Edit: yes I do know that a rusty nail can get you a nasty infection. Tetanus.
@@user-rx1vq3hb6d a rusty nail is pretty dangerous if you step on it, search it up
Meme Man then probably make shoes mandatory, or have kids collect rusty nails that can be exchanged for more tools or paint.
Of course, have a supervisor in the area but they are only allowed to interfere if a kid asks a question or if someone gets hurt.
Or make it a free ‘membership’ thing with a tag. New people will have to watch a short PSA on playground manners and potential hazards like ‘don’t whack each other with hammers, be careful of random rusty nails, don’t push in the build areas, paint is not food’ and other basic common rules.
And maybe gloves won’t be a bad idea. I’ve been nicked by one too many sharp edges of the cap of an Apple cider.
webtoon
ワッフル i rather build a three story than fall on a rusty nail 😂
As a child when I saw a slide with a roof on, I’d have just climbed on the roof.
I did that too.
It's fun so- why not do it?
i did too, but i stopped cuz people always yelled at me
As a child? I still do!
same
At my elementary school we had a safe playground, but right next to it was a stretch of trees that was basically woods to small children. Teachers would tell us over and over to not play in the trees because it was dangerous in there, but you would just say "ok" and then go in when their back was turned.
I remember one day me and my friends were building a den out of branches in the bushes and we found old barbed wire fence from old farmland, and from then on I was more cautious of what could be hidden by undergrowth and learned how to tell when stuff like that was hidden somewhere. No one got so much as poked by the literal barbed wire because of our exploration in the woods, but plenty of kids got hurt and even broke bones falling off of the safe playground equipment.
It's interesting that I now get way too nervous when trying to climb something- something the safe playground was supposed to provide- but I'm very good at navigating woodsy and overgrown terrain.
same!! I love going out of bounds in playgrounds and once i almost went face first into a spiderweb 😭 but i know how to climb over huge tree trunks and climb trees, stuff like that and its very fun
My primary school had an area with trees where it was encouraged to build things out of sticks and stuff. I remember having wars with the other kids using wooden stakes as weapons (not allowed but fun) and building massive shelters out of sticks and bark. we also used rocks as currency and my friends and i even set up a bank at some point (for the rocks)
horrible teachers
"THEIR TRICKING KIDS TO BUILD THEIR OWN PLAYGROUNDS!"
I live on the beach, and me and my neighborhood friends once tried building a fort. We collected drift wood, and we yanked the rusty nails out of the wood and used them to re hammer into the wood. We only got to like a foot high fence sort of thing but it was still fun. We had people on different stations as well. Some pulling the nails out, others hammering, some people on collection, and another person on pounding down the sand so it was hard. It was much better than any playground I have been to.
It’s like a wise man once said “if a kid gets injured, they learn not to do whatever got them injured in the future”
@M P depends on what it was and how it's addressed by the Caregiver
My parents philosophy when handing pocket knives to children. They show you how to use it once, and they’ll show you again if you ask. But if you mess up beyond that... well, you’re probably not gonna make that mistake again.
They learn to not do*
Yup once I lent on a braai and it burned my whole forearm
Hello fellow cuber
Parents: kids these days don't want to go outside and play.
*playground that encourages kids to play outside and be creative is built*
Parents: nO wAy mY kiD iS pLAyIng tHeRe.
Oscar Enrique that’s what a Karen would say
@@Mudthewobbledog sorry but what is a Karen?
oel ortsac A entitled (most of the time) woman
Oscar Enrique my parents took me to one once when we were on vacation and I hated lol xdd idk it just seemed boring to me because it was so old and rusty
@@lilfriendlyapricot7150 that probably means you weren't taught well
Ngl if i was a parent I would not allow my child in one of these… without me! That looks like fun!
Lol, had me in the first half, not gonna lie. I would totally want to join in the fun as well
same
I have to say that I have had some traumatic experiences and I am not visiting any of those again
lol
Same! I never saw one of these as a kid, why shouldn't I experience it as a grownup?
Another thing to consider is that getting hurt is a part of being a kid, if you do something that makes you get hurt, you learn to not do it again. Of course this changes with things that are life threatening but generally that seems to work. My dad has this saying “ if your gonna play, you get bumps and bruises”
This explains why kids like Minecraft so much
Underrated comments.
yes
Right
Theres the same comment right under you
What is the problem? Fortnite is worse
everybody gangsta until the undisciplined kid forces a nail into some kid’s hand
This happened to me so many times, luckly i was vaccinated so there's a low risk of getting a disease of this. Yay!
@@tareag993 wait.... someone forced a nail in your hand.... multiple times?
@@TheOPtmal yeah, my hand looks like colander now
Then the kid of the overly religious family tries to crucify another kid
They start burning the cross and the black kids leave...
When you think about it, it's fairly simple. If kids take risks, they learn the possibilities and consequences of doing so and are therefore better equipped when taking risks in the future, which is of course an inevitable part of life.
Depends on the kids. I was a safety freak when i was little. Never climbed up a tree without a ladder, got nice skates for Christmas but after i fell a few times i discarded them. Same with bikes and ballet lessons. I wanted to go to karate lessons, but changed my mind when i realised you dont only get to hit people, you may also get hit back.
My favourite pass time : drawing inside.
The antivax kid who accidentally got poked with a nail: My free trial of life has expired
An anti vax prob wouldn’t would be the Karen that says no to all of this
Zone_ yeah, the anti fax kid probably wouldn’t be able to even look at the risky playgrounds because of his Karen mom
“Change Da World”
My last words
-Antivax Kid
@@corgimations you said the meme wrong but ok
Low-hanging fruit.
When I was younger I just remember playing for a couple minutes on safe playgrounds and getting bored shortly after and wanting to go home
Its just not entertaining.
Exactly the same here
Same
Didn’t even get to play on one
We used to climb over all the trees that were AROUND the actual playground
I would get bored after 5 mins and start climbing trees and digging in the sand/dirt. or climb up the structures and jump down
When I grow up and have children, I want them to have their own adventure playgrounds, but say if they need help with hammering something I would totally help... I honestly think I would join in the play with them. Adventure playgrounds sound exactly like what I’m totally into.
if i ever went to an adventure playground i'd be the digger
my brother and i would always build forts in the woods with our grandma, always trying to outbuild eachother or figure out how to make a working door. i cant wait to do that with my kids or watch them enjoy an adventure park. as i get older i realize how important it is for kids to just figure stuff out on their own
As a fresh teenager, I have experience in “safe”playgrounds and when I was a kid they, weren’t the safest because when something is deemed safe you want to push more risk, risking hurting yourself even more
Parents: when I was a kid I faced death at every corner.
Parents with adventure playground: absolutely no way I'm sending my child there. It's too dangerous
They also went to school uphill and came back uphill.
@@blinkcatmeowmeow8484 deep.
When we were watching october sky and were shooting an abandoned car cause they were bored, my dad said that if someone had suggested that when he was a kid no one would think twice. And I am not allowed to climb a tree because it’s to dangerous.
@@blinkcatmeowmeow8484 Well actually if they went to school uphill they should come back down hill
@@ld1661 that’s the joke dude.
The more dangerous, the more careful you'll be. The more easy, the more clumsy you'll be
That's not how it works psychologically. Babies who haven't seen a snake before won't have any idea of it's danger and will have no fear touching it. Babies will readily walk off of a simulated cliff (the glass table experiment) without knowing that falling is dangerous.
Sense of danger is a conditioned response. One famous psychological experiment conditioned a baby to be scared of bunnies by associating it with a loud noise. The baby grew up fearing rabbits.
@@bee5120 kids≠babies. By the time kids are old enough to play on this adventure playgrounds, they understand what danger is. Kids aren't idiots, and it actively harms them if you think they are.
Until some kid gets angry and throws the hammer at someone else
Not just clumsy. You start looking for ways to make the playgroup more exciting, which often means making it more dangerous.
@@dannyclaws1 They could do that anyway. Kids inevitably have access to "dangerous" objects at home or even at school. You could stab your classmate in the eye with a pencil. It's not like a hammer is the only object they can access can cause harm.
The reason why kids are so addicted to video games is because parents these days are overprotective and won't let them do or play anything outside that can even be remotely dangerous that the kids want to do or play. If parents were less overprotective and let kids play or do things outside that are dangerous, kids would not be so addicted
I can see that. Especially since the most popular games have almost always been combat, platform, or sports-based - ie, extremely active and risky .
Not to mention, even if kids do wanna go outside, everyone lives in suburban housing zones that are a 20 minute drive at least from anything. Let alone anything interesting a kid would want to go to. Car-dependent cities results in kids going outside a whole lot less often.. especially when that outside is either a barren suburban housing zone or miles of stroads, parking lots and dollar stores.
I should know, every word that came out in my comment comes from personal experience.
I play a lot of video games and many of them are games which involve the natural world. I dream about being the main characters in my video games because they actually get to be in nature. Unlike me. Link, Madeline, Terrarian. I want to be you
Very true tbh, I'm a young adult but I love platforming games like mario so much because you actually have fun in them, there aren't a lot of fun activities like those adventure playgrounds which would've been amazing for young adults like me but I didn't even experience them as a kid...
It makes sense, if you look at the playground that is "safe" they probably get bored too easily and kids figure out new ways and creative ways to use them. If there are not predefined structures they need to be more creative and cooperative to essentially create their own "play"
So basically kids just need a bigger version of LEGO
Yep
Well yes but it's wooden and it won't fall apart so easily
Giant wood LEGO!!!!!!!
We need an area on a play ground with a bunch of giant wooden legos that we can build out of
Imagine having all the different peices legos could be, but bigger. Then there would be that one kid/team/kid with a parent who does things for them that would the coolest things, like a pedal powered car
Everyone’s having a great time until Karen’s kid shows up
But there isn't a manager what will they do?
Let them have fun. They won't last too long
It’s okay, hammer a nail into them and their Mom would regret being anti vax.
@@yeshi2031 Ehh, that seems a little too violent
Karen's kids are the type of kids to hit other with tools instead of using them
Counterpoint: I feel like these riskier playgrounds would exclude a lot of kids with disabilities. A large part of the fun of a playground is interacting with other kids and creating imaginary games that turn the play structure into a castle or pirate ship. That’s why families with jungle gyms still visit local parks. It’s also really important for kids to exposed to people who are different from them early on to build tolerance, and a HUGE part of that is normalizing disability. Someone once brought up the fact that playgrounds designed with disabled kids in mind are boring to other kids because they’re not “challenging,” but the thing is, you can’t design a challenge that works for every kid. If it’s challenging for a five-year-old, a ten-year-old will be bored to tears, and if it’s challenging for a ten-year-old, a five-year-old has no hope of completing it. Most playgrounds are designed to challenge little kids’ motor skills rather than those of older children, so inclusivity doesn’t really lose anything. Also, there’s lots of other ways for kids to take risks that don’t make a public park’s play area inaccessible for disabled kids, which are a way larger percent of the population than people realize. Take them biking, rock climbing, hiking, ice skating, sky’s the limit.
My mother used to take me to such an adventure playground, I never understood what she expected me to do there but after some time me and my siblings startet to build little forts and castels, even engineered slingshots to shoot rotting apples at each other. Was a great time. Learned a lot of things and that great friends would always wipe away rotted apple-goo from your forehead and help you back up. I'm thankfull my mom took me there, will do the same with my children.
Parents: wonder why kids don't want to go outside anymore
Playground: 6ft tall, one slide, one ladder, one staircase
Kid: I just built a mansion with a water slide and roller coaster in Minecraft!
THIS. you get it. I only used to play outside because I could get creative with it- but now it's much more engaging for me to be online, to be writing stories and playing Minecraft and stuff. If there was stuff I could _do_ outside that wasn't just wandering around and staring at dead weeds, it would be a lot more fun.
I love Minecraft. I have a whole channel about it
AidanTheBandit how original
Carnival Clown thank you
AidanTheBandit that was sarcasm
"Youre tricking them into building their own playgrounds!"
When I was a kid, that is the dream.
Just realized you can say this against Ikea but apparently no one is complaining
Imagine getting old and seeing ppl playing in the playground u built..
@@minecraftstation6422 Id be overjoyed and join them too
And it have no side effect about that
That is why I love living in a place where the soil is easily manipulated, it has the right mixture of silt and clay so that it is almost always firm and never runny, has a pretty much indefinite stand up time when you dig a trench or wall in it, and since it used to be 30 miles for the nearest shoreline in a glacial Lake at the end of the last ice age there's absolutely no sand, gravel, and no rocks at all, so it is extremely easy to dig in. Also makes for very easy tunneling too.
Yeah like thats the whole point-
Omg I love this. Playgrounds nowadays are typically just one plastic building with a short slide; it makes me wish I was born in the 80s where they did adventures things like this without technology. When I have kids, I will definitely be taking them to one of these.
Same
i rarely played at playgrounds as a kid. I was happier playing in puddles, making rivers and dams from mud. Me and my friends loved wooded areas, abandoned buildings and wild junkyards. There was so much stuff to do, just with twigs, bricks and old junk. I never seriously injured myself while playing with sharp and heavy objects, but i did broke a leg on a playground. There was nothing interesting to do on a regular playground so we once did a competition who could jump the furthest distance from a swing, and that's how i broke my leg.
Even as a teenager, I would love to play on one of the adventure playgrounds
Yeah, definatly. Rn I just sit inside next to PC, but if i grabbed some friends it would realy fun.
Right? It's so awkward going to a playground with younger siblings and not being able to have fun as their size.
@@bobtheball5384 I have no experience with younger siblings, but yeah, i think i understand.
@@bobtheball5384 it sucks when playgrounds get so small for you. I live next to a park and I can barely fit in the normal sized swings anymore.
Truth
I remember at my school a while back, there was this clay pit or something, and It was always full of kids digging through it trying to get the biggest rocks. The school removed it though, and everyone was upset.
Nice, a verified RUclipsr
at my school there was this patch of mud between two trees and we would dig for diamonds and emeralds which were just bits of coloured glass we used sticks to make the hole
When I was in preschool, there was an area for kids to dig in the mud, find worms, and mess with grass. The teachers were okay with and they did not take it away.
Is too dangerus having kids dig holes and put rock
Someone could have fun
And we dont accept that here
In my old school, there was this oak tree that was climbable and I used to climb it high all the time by the park like other children, then one day a kid fell off the tree hit the ground with his back and since then we weren't allowed to climb that tree lol
When I was in elementary school, the kids at my school had what we called “fairy houses”, they were along the fence in our back field, we all had our own little fairy house that we created out of sticks, leaves, stones etc. We were way more interested in our fairy houses than the playground. I wish we had adventure playgrounds when I was little!
I am now 74 years of age and grew up during the 1950s in a 1000-year-old former coalmining village in the north of England (without television). There were no adult organised activities or playgrounds etc, only old closed down coal mines, fields and woods where few people went, plus old disused railway lines and old buildings which we partly demolished and used the materials to build treehouses and dens in the woods. It was a great time to be alive. Oh, and our parents never knew where we were or what we were doing.
honestly, most things other than the swings weren't that fun in the modern playgrounds
I can't ride the swings, motion sickness, so the safe playgrounds weren't fun at all.
and then some schools got rid of swings bc of the “safety hazard” 🤦♀️
y'all didn't play lava monster did you, the best way to avoid the lava monster is to climb on the outside if they come up to get you.
climbing was fun!
There was barley anything to do...just climb up then go down.
If Kids Play Too Safe They Start Playing Too Dangerous
If Kids Play Moderately Dangerous They Have Fun
Why are they all capitalized,,
Well said!
@@louise4152 some people with dyslexia capitalize every letter to better read.
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Our elementary school had a playground section that also happened to be built near an area which was mostly untouched
Most of the kids would go there instead of playing in the 'safe playground'
I remember one of the main things we did was 'digging for fossils' in the dirt/sand/gravel with small rocks lol, that was way more fun than the safe playground every could be.
I definitely feel like allowing children to explore and adventure into a more wild area is more appealing to the children themselves than safe playgrounds, where there was basically nothing to do.
Same thing is happening at the field next to the playground at our school
I agree! When I was a kid we were given old sheets and logs and trees! Everyone was so happy. I made a hammock that actually worked!
Someone made a seesaw that everyone loved.
I made multiple working fast slides out of snow!
This is fueling imagination. And it's great for kids!
The older kids would find a way to get on the roof of the "safe" playground, making it unsafe. We would climb on the railings as we traversed it. We made it unsafe because it felt more fun that way.
I used to climb the nets, slide down the ladders and climb up the slides... needless to say my dad was on the verge of heart attack many times🤣🤣
@@lemon4087 Me too, my mom didn't really care cuz it was fun
There was a slide that had a roof over it so I would slide down that roof not the actual slide then fall to my death at the end, 100% would reccomend
There's a playground near my friends house and it has stuff like nets to climb on and it was high and there were rings hanging but there was a net kinda like a wall around the rings so me and my friends climbed that then ontop of the rings and flipped around the actual ring idk how to explain it but it was fun
Ah there was a play ground that looked cool bt was just fancy plastic, we climbed ontop of the roofs, on the railings, climbed under the we would slide in the room sides, and legitduring the wi tee
It's just like the slides. Back In the day there weren't those plastic slides. Only high polished metal ones. Where you had to calculate the speed in relation to the sun's position to determine if you wanted to be rare, medium rare or well done when you arrived at the bottom of the slide
Ha lol 😂😂😂
@no. you still get shocked on the plastic ones
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and the awful noise of kids skidding down the slide inch by inch
I’m not even that old and I talk about how I used to be allowed to build things with wood, saws, hammer, and nails as a child. Seems to blow some people’s minds but what’s the worst a I could have done to myself? Broken a finger, gotten a minor cut? I can’t believe how we’re so over protective we restrict children’s ability to self-discover.
In terms of playgrounds idk we had snow.
Edit: I see other comments referring to kids hurting other kids. Very valid argument, I was supervised.
We had an amazing wooden playground near where i lived when i was younger. it was designed like a castle and it was incredible. It got torn down and the plastic one that replaced it is awful. Its half the size and no one uses it.
Wow! That sounds so fun! Theres this huge playground i went to once with so many hiding spots but its very far away from my house :(
Some kids act safely, but others would throw the hammers everywhere, or rip off the stuff that was already built
Those are the kids we used to throw dirt clogs at
Kids nowadays would, back in the day probably not
@shi. good question
That’s the point of the video though. We can’t shelter kids. They’ll have to figure it out on their own. If some kid is ripping the stuff already built, that’s an opportunity for growth for the kid who’s ripping it and the kid who built it.
Elizabeth Schwartz They do that with their toys etc now anyway though
It's all fun and games until the playground Fight has hammers
Or the kids want to reenact Lord of the Flies
@@toradragon omg THIS! 😭
trust me, coming from someone who was an over emotional kid myself, Hitting someone with a hammer would *Never* Happen unless you were seriously sadistic
Ben which, trust me, some kids are
I remember when at my local park had construction going on, and for some reason in like 1998-1999 ish, they didn't fence off all the stuff, so we played in the concrete tubes and caterpillar diggers and basically everything we were NOT supposed to play on.😂 Also, before they fenced off the pond as a "sensitive natural area" we played in the awful swampy pond and turned rocks over and hunted for leeches.
Parents and other authorities tend to forget that children weren't always raised in clean, injury-free environments. We're a social, curious, and constantly inventive species that had thrived on the concept of taking risks for thousands, millions of years. Kids are an even greater form of that due to their limited experience, so why not at least entertain it in a controlled environment that puts them in charge? Even if they get a minor injury, it could grow to be a valuable memory and lesson. I don't see how it's a job either when the kid is willing and excited to craft with no monetary incentive, almost like not every motive revolves around capital.
The neighborhood I grew up in had amazing playgrounds, although there were no movable parts. They’ve all been replaced with the most antiseptic boring playground structures that would have captivated my attention for maybe 5 minutes as a kid. I used to spend hours at my favourite playground and never get bored.
I feel like if an adventure playground existed in my area...kids won’t the only ones found there...teens will be there
That’s an interesting point
VANDALISM HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
Spray paint would lrib be allowed and would be fun
I would go
potatoes potatolife I mean come on we can do what ever df we want and not get in trouble.. who wouldn’t? 🤣🤭
The saddest thing is actually how few playgrounds there are in general. In many towns, the only playgrounds you can find are inside McDonalds.
i live in a suburban town, and this is absolutely true. we have a massive population, so big we’ve had to expand most of our schools. we don’t have a single playground that’s public. all of them are on school grounds, all of which are private property. and my mother wonders why I’m so aggressive to my sister. lol
It might be just a town thing, because in the suburbs of the city where I live, I'm within walking distance of 5-6 playgrounds
That's actually one of the reasons why mcdonald's and other large fast food chains introduced on site playgrounds. They saw it as a way to profit and attract more parents and their children, especially in towns where actual public playgrounds were either sparse or nonexistent. I agree, it really is sad.
or theyre really only made for little kids/teens are frowned apon by using them
Are you aware of schools?
I go to Greece often with my family as that is my motherland. One of my most fond memories as a kid, even now when we go back, is visiting this zoo in the middle of some woods by my home town. Amongst those woods is a rock, which has a glossy, low-friction surface which makes it easy to slide down. Yes... it's a rock slide, and you wouldn't believe the HOURS my cousins and I would spend on and around that rock. What safety is around there? Absolutely nothing. And that's the beauty of being a kid; you don't care. You don't care about risk, danger, hazards, death. You just find whatever you can, be it a branch, an old can of beans, or some random slippery rock in the middle of some woods in Greece, and have fun. Society is starting to pull that away from kids, and it's really sad to think about.
As a child in "conventional" playground i found only 3 things i enjoyed:
Swings - i liked to swing high and jump off at the high point to see how far away from the swing i could land
the pole thing going from the higher part to the ground, cause i could come down like a fireman
and the pull-up bars, cause i could climb on top of them and sit there above everyone else
everything else was mostly boring, i would probably use the slides more tho, but they were burning hot from the sun
4:03
"They're tricking kids into building their own playgrounds"
But is it really work if it's fun?
It's like hands on learning. Now that's fun
if you enjoy your job, you'll never work a day in your life...
@@benjaminnewlon7865 Probably not. The world isn't sunshine and rainbows
@@flamingo1765 ...but it isn't rain and thunderstorms now is it
@@theoneabovemost7865 Sure...
*_*suddenly remembers that one Spongebob episode when Mr. Krabs made a junk playground*_*
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@@shadefoxthepenguin Yeah
When I was growing up, I'd dig holes in the backyard. When I was a little older, my Dad let me build a wooden submarine and bridge. I spent countless hours outside working on these projects.
That's a supporting father you have there
@@RayOfSunlight984 Yep! My mom eventually figured out how to use this to her advantage: she'd send me out to the backyard with a pickaxe and have me dig trenches where she wanted to plant her garden. I was her human rototiller!
@@kentslocum A little abusive i would say, but what you think?
@@RayOfSunlight984 I'd call it keeping me out of trouble!
@@kentslocum Heh, yeah, mothers often want to keep their children free of dangers but, it's the risks that teaches us to not do the things
I grew up in a small ~ 600 people village and my parents house is halfway sorrounded by nature. They also have a big garden that was still in construction for most of my childhood, since we built that house and moved in when I was 3 and did all the landscaping in the garden ourselves over the years. This meant that various stages of the garden were amazing as a playground, way better than the actual village playground. And the nature around us was just as great to go on adventures, climb trees and have fun. Only real rule was to tell my parents roughly where we were going, so in case we didn't come back past a certain time, they'd know where to search for us
All fun and games until that one kid starts launching hammers
This Literally made me laugh out loud
Caleb McKinnonNB same
Just Jess you could do that in any other playground
That is where they will know how to control by themselves.
I'd be the one throwing metal things to see how far they'd go into the ground
Everybody gangsta until the kids start playing bible
"we gonna play bible!"
*"who wanna be jesus!?"*
We never had bullies growing up...but then, kids didn't have problems in the first place to become a bully
@@VibhorWase that's a straight up lie
Vibhor Wase Sir you are capping. That’s the fact.
Nothin’ll toughen a kid up like a good hearty crucification!
There could also be a middle-ground with hard hats and a separate zone for very young kids. And there should also be a traditional playground nearby so it isn't the only option.
But you could also do obstacle courses, gym elements (ie metal or plastic beams a foot off the ground), that kind of thing. More risk and more fun than a normal playground, but less than giving kids sharp and heavy objects with which to beat each other.
Relatedly, plastic playgrounds are way more accessible to disabled kids (though usual not to kids using wheelchairs or walkers)
I am still a kid and this is something that I want to have so bad. This can make kids more independent and this seems like fun
Same bro
Same
I'm not worried about kids hurting themselves, I'm worried about kids with aggression issues or kids too young to have developed empathy hurting each other
and karen
Yeah, I like this idea, but the issue is some kids who will not be able to control themselves and hurt others
@@ghostdagreat dotn worry, those kids will be *E X E C U T E D*
Omg so true. I agree with you. Some kids do not know the boundaries. And you only have one life, so use it wisely and don't abuse it.
I 100% agree
So basically the Krusty Krab playground.
Luka Mihajlovic Krusty Krab* Dishonor upon you!
@@leona.k.a.prettyboy6942 I've no idea what you're talking about :D
Luka Mihajlovic you monster! You fixed it dishonor upon you!
Krabby Land!!!
Don't forget krabby the clown
When I was like nine they redid all the playgrounds in my town, including the school ones, and it was so boring. They spent so much money on it, had it closed off for at least six months and at the end all we wanted was for it to be turned back again. It used be a kind of mix between regular and risky playground and it was great and they just got rid of it all.
I remember around the 90s when i was a kid, our backyard was full of tools and it was the best moments of my childhood. I mix a lot of toxic powders (like cement and glue), but i knew those were toxic, and was careful in handling it. I agree with these type of adventure playgrounds. They allow children to use their creativity and logic
Are safe playgrounds good for kids?
_Well, yes. But actually no_
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Nice :D
I see what you did there ;)
@@luxembourgishempire2826 it's a meme
Evariste Galois the answer is a pretty clear no
“You are making kids build a playground” I’ve built a fort using the woods and a shovel. Don’t tell me what I do and don’t enjoy.
Yeah!
Also, the forts break and we get angry. Please tell me I'm not the only one!
In my town we did on some own farm it was so fun to do during the lockdown and we still use it even though most of us are like 16 or 15
Most kids love to build things, especially boys! How do you think Lego, Link n Logs, Mega Blocks, and Magnetix go so popular?
@@calebdonaldson8770 Minecraft too
Pfft. Wood and shovel? Me and my brothers used to run into the forest, pull out a dead tree and make things using rocks and mud.
I can definitely confirm a part of this. When I was in Elementary school, we had a standard "safe" playground. I'd always try to find the most risky and adventurous activities I could, like climbing the poles on swing sets, climbing on top of of that roof thing mentioned at 0:07, and balancing on various things.
I like climbing on the playground's fence and going head first
One time a few of my friends and I in the winter took some of those little plastic shovels they give the kids for some reason in school and dug out an entire snowbank that the plow had made. 2 enterances, a slide in the top, and 2 deep caverns that you could lay down in. It was fun, soundproof too. Way more fun than I've ever had on my schools swings or something.
"Safe" playgrounds aren't made for kids. They're made for litigious parents.
But that's why playgrounds have signs saying supervise your children or the children in your care because the city is not liable for their protection
Agree. Playground these days are boring, they lack vandalism.
Kids playing with hammers and nails back in the days meanwhile now you get yelled at by picking up a rock like
TIMMY PUT DOWN THAT ROCK!
@@zynel413 I’m neither of does :)
@@zynel413 wow stereotyping people, you've already lost the argument then.
@@Juan-mw5tt timmy: *throws rock at kid* happy now mum?
@@gialonn7599 Proceeds to put child in the electric chair:
At my elementary school, the big kids’ playground was adjacent to the parking lot. When it snowed, the plows would push huge piles of snow onto the edge of the soccer field. We LOVED making snow forts and stuff out of the snow piles.
my Asian parents: how about mental adventures? Like adventurous mathematics and chemistry questions.
"they're treating kids into building their own playground" that.... tha- thats the point... its so kids can build things from their imagination.... they arent being forced to do it like actuall jobs.....
Ikr lol
Yes
I think building forts is fun
@@Bigcountry788 yeah ive made like 50 forts using pillows and blankets
When I was 5 I built pillow forts every week .
The adult version of this playground is called “Life”.
No it never stops being life from the beginning
@@stonethemason12 of course it does. In the end.
@@cobalius you wouldnt know life without death.
No, the adult version of a playground is a theme park. The adult part is that you have to pay for it.
Except it isn't fun.
So true! When I was a kid, playgrounds weren't as interesting for me as my grandparents' summer house where I could build things and explore the nature around me. Yes, it did involve some splinters and accidentally hitting my fingers with a hammer (maybe a few times), but it was SO worth it!
The main fear might be that parents can’t afford to bring their kids to the doctor or the hospital. When I used to play and it was getting risky and someone let my parents know, they just calmly answered: “If something happens, we’ll bring him to the doctor”. But I live in Europe so there’s that.
That’s a good point. Also while many of the lawsuits are spurious, the reason many injury suits happen are to cover medical bills. So, that’s a big part of it.
Even if the injury was not actually the playground/school’s fault, parents will sue if they are slapped with a big medical bill because it’s often the easiest way to pay it - or sometimes the only way they can afford it.
I cannot describe in words how much I’ve been caged from taking risks in my life. I’ve never been allowed to make my own decisions or let my imagination run wild and now that I’m 17, my parents have suddenly pushed me into the hot water saying “decide what you want to do in your future”. How will I know? I’ve never experienced enough things to pick out what I’m most passionate about, I’ve never been given any creative independence. How do you expect me to bloom out of your shadow suddenly? You’ve just put me back a thousand steps!
man, we have the same story. i’m almost turning 18 and they expect me to be so mature with the knowledge of who i wanna be in the future like ??? they don’t even let me go to sleepovers, i have never been to one. have never went to another city or country by myself.
Life isn’t fair. Our parents often aren’t the greatest at preparing us for life :(
Your parents are the dumbest ones in existence, further proving my theory that alot of parents just want kids to have power and control over one’s life.
@@firemangan2731 I don't think the main point is power and control. I think that some parents treat their kids like a shiny new SUV without driving off-road. They value some things so much, that they never tap the full potential just to avoid even the littlest dent. But this behavior leads to disadvantages which they accept.
@@kimchichin thats sad. But doesn't have necessarily to be sad. Let's break the cycle.
Wanna come to my city? I can show you some interesting spots here. Or even the country itself, chances you are from same country are pretty low statistically.
For starters, it could be your 1st visited city/country by yourself. + Experience. + new points of view you are likely to discover. + Adventure.
I don't really care that much for who are you or where are you from, but if there's a thing I can help a young soul to grow and discover itself, I am in.
PS. How do a youtube user contact another youtube user outside of comments?
I remember in elementary school, they had a "safe" playground. We hated it and would usually play "crossy road" where we would try to run through the swings without getting hit by someone swinging. If you got hit, you had to switch them.
We did tht at my school too, it was the best when there were multiple classes out at once and the swings were fully loaded
Same!
I once got kicked in the head!
@Illya L. Who said I was complaining?😄
Literally we did that to! It was like the chicken crossing the road
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There's one of those safe playgrounds at my elementary school, and when I was little one kid (probably 5th or 6th grade at the time) climbed on the roof and got stuck.
Also, at our local children's garden, there's a think called the anarchy zone that's a lot like an adventure playground, but with no nails or bricks and a mud pit.
And people wonder why kids like video games more than actually going outside.
T R U T H
No dad, it's not because I'm addicted. It's because I'm tired of you either yelling at me or hitting me for doing something slightly annoying.
Sports...
That’s because it allows their imagination to run wild. Not cause they don’t have fun at a playground
@@miraimin1 relatable
It’s fun until a Karen comes around and says “this park is unsafe where is your manager!”
*where
Thank you Shaggy, very cool!
@Nicholas Bruh, I know! Thanks a lot!
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UnknowN RS love Karen for that
I remember having wooden and metal structured playgrounds so didn't have the plastic versions. But beyond like splinters and scraps, it was pretty safe. When I was young, you just used the play equipment as explained by adults when they took you to the playground, but as you go older and went by yourself, you used them in ways not intended, like jumping off the slide and other risky things. And then as you got older, there were buildings and gates around the playground that you could climb on. And you could play sports like touch football (Cause the ground was concrete around the playground and falling while running was painful, let along people pilling up on you.) All that's to say is let kids figure it out. Making playgrounds riskier sounds like helicopter parenting. The idea that you can manage every part of a kid's life, in this case, risk, to optimum results.