If you read this blog regularly, you know I am a big fan of playgrounds. Not only for kids. But for myself. Playgrounds are where I workout when on the road.
Scott Bird suggests that “monkey bars” have been disappearing from parks in Australia. What a shame.
A few decades ago – when I would have first played around on monkey bars – they seemed to be everywhere. In their original, simple form or as part of more elaborate constructions such as rockets and aeroplanes. To a young boy with a big imagination, they were magical.
Fast forward 20 years or so, to the mid ’90s. Due to their popularity – they were being used almost 8 times as much as other playground equipment – there were an alarming number of accidents. …
Fearful of lawsuits, many of the monkey bars were removed.
We need more monkey bars in this world. Not fewer.
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