"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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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*
@@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.
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.
"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
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.
I think that’s why most children prefer the swings over anything. It still gives a thrill. I remember being bored by the metal, squishy floored playground by my elementary school. The one I lived by was much more beat up, everything was wood, and rocks replaced foam or mulch. I think I was better off for it.
I like the swings but i HATE the swirly wirly (or whatever its called) cuz everytime i get on it i want to throw up. One time i actually did throw up but it wasnt vomiting like just like 1/4 vomiting.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Me: * is 14 * Also me: "make that playground bigger and I'd still play in it." In my city there's literally no playground and the streets are lined with stores, plus it's unsafe. I literally sit in my house 24/7 during the holidays.
All the parks in my place used to be great but now they’ve all been “refurbished” to be all safe. There used to be a massive slide in one of the parks, that was taken down and replaced with a wide plastic slide that isn’t even a metre off the ground.
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.
@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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
I remember when I was a kid we went to one of those safe playgrounds and we got bored so quickly that by the next day we had gone to the nearby woods and built a rope swing with my dad and to this day it is still there
@@wereallpinkinside8452 indeed it was. We built another,much bigger one but when we came back to it one day somebody had cut it down which is a shame because it wasn't just us who used it everyone loved it and in the summer there was queues of almost a dozen people waiting to swing
@@therealicecat I went back there not long before the lockdown and unfortunately it had been cut down by a group of teenagers. I will try to make a new one after the lockdown and will post a video if I do
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.
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 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
3:17 Can confirm--as a kid on a "bridge-and-domed-roof" safe playground like the ones mentioned at the beginning of the video, my first though was always, "How do I get on the roof?"
First thought is to get on the roof. Second is how to travel to the other side of the playground without getting off of the roof. Seriously though, I don't know if it's because I'm sixteen or what. Playgrounds are boring and I would rather be off in the woods climbing a tree.
In the 4th grade of elementary school, we got kinda tired of the play structure and so we used to go out into the grass and dig holes, hoping one day to find dinosaur bones. If we had tools and materials, I could guarantee we would have built anything we could imagine.
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)
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
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.
One time I got a rusty nail in my foot at an adventure playground, I cried for like an hour, but I learned to not wear flip-flops and run, I'm still salty about it though
Same experience here. Two rusty nails in the middle of my foot. I had trouble walking a for some days but I learned to always pay lots of attention in such areas..
"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.
I can understand the lack of adventure in kids. I babysit a 9 and 11 year old. All they do is play with iPads because they have no clue of what else to do. Parents constantly think everything is dangerous and kids only have one thing to satiate adventure, video games. Yet parents continue to complain about tech despite being the ones that prevent adventure. Anytime I visit Bulgaria, my home country allows kids starting from ages 7 to be out and hangout with kids their own age without parental vision, come to America and I rarely see kids outside and only see iPads and iPhones because that’s all any of us have known. It’s sad
Its mainly due to the human trafficking that happens here in the US that us american kids don’t have that much freedom to walk around with kids their own age.
@Jou T5 « over emotional women »? if parents are overly protective it’s because there’s a consensus between the mother and the father... what a disrespectful comment...
I remember being incredibly bored on safe playgrounds and we never had an adventure playground in our neighborhood so we just went in the forest, brought our own tools and searched for natural building materials. We built amazing huts and treehouses and nowadays I would love to return to those times!!
So true! We would go to the safe playground for like 5 minutes, but would spend hours in the woods, climbing trees and trying to build stuff. I think we coddle children too much now days. When i was a kid my mom would let us walk to the playground (the unsafe one-it was old and had the classic stuff) by ourselves and we loved it. I saw a couple of years ago that some parents got taken to court for doing the same thing. so sad :(
@@superdudeman666 doing it irl is harder and something not many can or are willing to do, which makes the work unique in a way. besides i think hes talking about the past when mc didnt really exist...
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.
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
I feel like it would be best if we built a normal playground, and next to it we would put a adventure playground. That way the kids themselves could decide if they wanted to take risks or go with the safer option. That added level of choice would make them feel a lot more independent, and if a child gets hurt or bored on one playground, they can just go to the other one next time instead of stopping playing altogether.
@@artofdesign1351 just split the lot you were already zoning and flow the parental seating areas as a sort of “imagined barrier” filling gaps between the two parks
I think ours was for kids from around 8 to 18. And yes it was really cool, but it was kinda far away for me and school got hard so I seldom found time to go there...
InfectedGamez all throughout my teenage years which was just a few years ago, my friends and I would go hangout at the park and use the swings. It’s very common. There’s not a lot of free public spaces to go to other than parks.
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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”
I grew up playing at the safe playground during the early 2000s.. but i still ended up with bruises and wounds. I remember when i used to go to the playground with my friends and we started to get bored playing there. So instead we seek for thrill in doing dangerous stuff such as climbing on top of the monkey bars, swings etc.. Now, i think that maybe all of this was the result of the safe playground. So I really do support the adventure playground..
i fractured a small bone in my wrist on a safe playground. wasnt really safe. in order to make sure the structure stood well they filled the sandpit where the structure was with concrete and went over it with maybe a foot of sand. on that same playground i hit my jaw on a platform from slipping on the stair and knocked my two front teeth out. i sprained my ankle, nearly broke my skull on a stunt bar ( they're lower to the ground) yet ive never once injured myself playing in the woods building forts out of branches or in my back yard climing the fence or the pine tree. i mean i fell off that fence into my neihbours yard directly onto my back but i didnt get any serious injury. i also played with tools and nails in the shed. no injury there either. rushed to the ER on multiple occasions with a common playground, never once when i was left to just do whatever. even now we have a common playground just outside my current backyard and either very few kids are playing and those that are are pushing eachother off the slide into the sand, climing to the top of the dome itself only to get yelled at by a supervising adult. and i, also an adult, gets yelled at by parents for giving kids brooms to use as flags for capture the flag. saying the game itself is too dangerous. kids arent even allowed to play red rover. or tag, or groundhog. its annoying
Yes same my childhood! But at the same time tho because we were bored of these playgrounds we started inventing our own games but idk I remember stumbling on some harsh tower and bruising my legs.. ah childhood
same here. I remember I fell and scraped myself up all the time at school on the playground because kids were trying to make it more dangerous/thrilling. Kids would see who could jump off the highest point of the playground, who could flip their body backwards on metal bars, climb on top of the monkey bars and sit there. It felt like every day someone at my school got injured and sent to the nurse from the playground because we kept trying to make it better
"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.....
As a teenager, I feel so bad for just wanting to sit on my phone all day. But playgrounds now are just soooo boring after about 5 mins. And the ones that are fun are far away. I love the parks where it’s open and have some fun and inventive play structures.
Near my nans house there always was this giant park with a maze,flying fox that glides through the whole park, biking and scootering areas, giant swings,tall climbing equipment and slides, another giant maze with cool things to do when you get stuck, sometimes there were markets going on and a food court for whenever we have to go home we would always buy fish and chips It's basically the best park I ever went too despite that all the parks near my regular house are all small or filled with covid testing areas so we aren't allowed to go there anymore
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
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
So an "adventure playground" is exactly the same as playing out behind the barn where your dad throws junk so it can't be seen from the road? All snark aside, I really do love this
Jenna Schroeder Yeah, as a kid, me and my friends would’ve loved this. We found ways to accidentally hurt ourselves , no matter how safe the playground.
I remember back in elementary, people tended to gravitate towards the field rather than the playground. They loved the open space and would often find thinks like sticks, pebbles, and even litter to create small structures. People also loved finding weeds, flowers, caterpillars, beetles, birds, and more. I remember finding a turtle once. All of these experiences wouldn’t have been created if we were strictly bound to the playground.
@@pc5890 My backyard had a small woods, and there were these really big peices of concreate me and my friends would play on, we would just climb, sit or just hangout there.I was convinced they were giant dinosor fossils. Honestly, that woods was way more fun then any sort of safe playground could get.
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.
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
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
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.
Everyone, I think lol. For example, there was this sort of tunnel on one of the playground, and I probably passed over it ten times more than I passed in it. The tunnel was like 2 meters above the ground and the sides were quite slippy.
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
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.
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.
In Britain and the USA, one of the funniest examples of insulating children from taking risks was the installation of child-proof protective caps on the chemical vials in some children's chemistry sets. This means that the kid may have to ask his parents to help him with the chemistry experiments, rather than doing anything on his own.
I remember in elementary school the game ‘squish the lemon’. The kids would all go down the slide at once sideways, and try to stack on eachother without falling off the slide. We crushed eachother! And it was our favorite game!
we had a really wide slide where we we would play a game where everyone would sit on top of it and someone had tu run up the slide and. try to pull down people
Getting hurt as a kid is part of childhood. I don’t know one person who doesn’t laugh and reminisce about getting a scrapped knee or slamming into a pole
Oh yeah... I remember when I was 9, I was running in a forest and my foot hit a tree root and I fell on the ground. I cried but at least now I'm more careful than before.
@@leoraxion2952 because you didn't land with your eye on the root. But you could. You could hit your head on a rock. Many, many kids did, and died. we say it was all nice and fun because we made it up to adulthood, but in fact kids who live that unsupervised life die from time to time
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.
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"
When I was younger, there was a patch of bushes that me and my friends slowly turned into a base of sorts. There was a tree in the middle that we used as a watchtower and we made little rooms for people to hide in.
Parents: You never get exercise/go outside! Me when I was a kid: Can I go bike outside? parents: *No i'm busy* Edit: *Clarification, as I stated, this is what happened when I was a kid. I'm now old enough and trusted enough to go outside on my own.*
@@paperdrum39 the person's parents would complain around how they don't go outside, so when they finally decide to go outside, the parents have an excuse as for why they can't go.
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
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 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...
I've literally never been to a playground. My childhood was all about feeding goats and cows, climbing trees, hiking with my father, and keeping all of these things a secret from my mother who was deathly afraid of everything XD Bless her heart she was the best mother I could've ever asked for but she was also the most overprotective being you could ever meet! It wasn't until I was a teenager that she learned that I had been doing all of these things with my dad and my grandfather
@@BL4CKKN1GHT At this point? Actually pretty happy. She later realized that being scared of everything and everyone would have done more harm than good. She was happy that I was happy, and that's the most important thing.
That's fine that's a good approach to it. It should always be at the parent's discretion. I just hate that we seem to be bowing to the lowest common denominator who don't want places like this.
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.
My neighbour told me a story about his childhood friends who constructed real guns powered by matches, one of them was scarry new teacher so she called a police.
My grandma: one time I got run over by a horse when I was 9 and broke my arm Me when I’m old: I fell of the swings and broke my finger when I was a teenager
Lol I have barely anything to say about my childhood and I'm 2000 I should be able to remember something remarkable but mmm neh, once I fall of one of those safe playgrounds and then never climbed that high oops
When i was kid there was no playground near my home, just an empty land with some stuff in it and in here I first learned why you should not burn spray cans and bottles
I honestly agree. Being an older kid when my babysitter says “let’s go to the playground” I hear “let’s be bored for an hour” another thing kinds of replayed but kind of not, my babysitter dosn’t understand that you can’t have fun without taking risks. Me and my babysitter’s daughter she is like 8 we’re having nerf battle with my nerf guns, we decided no fighting on the stairs, and we could go anywhere in the house expect for the basement, and my moms room these were the only rules. Then my babysitter thought this was to dangerous and made us use my plastic light up swords in only one room, the room she was in, because she needed to supervise us. (I really don’t think she did) the second I accidently hit her daughter slightly hard and she started laughing my babysitter told us to stop because someone is going to start crying. Like seriously even if one of us did start crying we were having a blast before that.
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 when I was growing up. We live in a rural area and both our kids spent a lot of time playing in the woods. Several trees still have boards nailed to them as ladders. The only problem now is the explosion of ticks and Lyme disease.
I got an empty field with tall grass that would be behind all of the houses on my block to the end of cul-de-sac that we had several entry points into. The main way was through a neighbors front yard and down over the ditch with wooden plank or two acting as a bridge if the ditch had water in it. It lead to piles of debris from someone tearing up asphalt and sidewalk with dirt that we would mostly play on. I am pretty sure that the house manufacturing place actually owned the field that we would play in mostly but they never stopped us. Also at one point someone ran their four wheeler through a back section of it so we got a cool track that we could run around in too.
We ran around my historic distric neighborhood. A few abandoned houses to explore, alleys, lakes, empty lots, and the old "haunted" house on a corner lot that was hit by lighting 3+ times and no one lived in for more than a few months.
Tbh rolly pollies are more interesting. Also my school banned the only fun game around so there's that. I kinda get why they would do that but the thing is no one ever got hurt while playing the game
I feel that. In elementary school there was a small ant hill in the corner of the playground and we built an ant village for the ants with buildings and walls.
At my school they banned sitting on benches, just walking around during recess, tag, American football, futbol and baseball so we had to play on the equipment but then we just threw kickballs at each other
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!
There used to be an “adventure playground” near my house. My friends and I would spend hours on end messing around there playing all types of games that you would normally play on a playground. When I was about 10 they tore it up and replaced it with they new “safer” versions. Once done, we decided to give it a try and stayed for around 20 minutes. Bored, we left and playing at a park was never as enjoyable. TDLR: new playgrounds stink
I remember playing catch and climbing on top of those tower roofs they have at playgrounds and then jumping down to the ground from them and praying you don't break your legs.
lol same and the scariest part was that sometimes i didn't wanted to jump because i had fear but i kind of needed to get of and climbing down was a struggle
Me too! But our roofs were over sand so I was pretty safe jumping. These days little girls (and boys) are so sheltered. But my mom just shrugged off me climbing trees and dangling my feet over her head. We had a metal playground and we’d do flips on the bars. I did rock climbing with some friends recently and was amazed at how many people didn’t know to test a spot before shifting their weight into it. Rough playgrounds teach you useful skills.
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!
When I was in elementary school, it was a thing that kids built "shelters" out of leaves, mud and sticks and I remember we would literally have fights over the best sticks or building areas. All of this instead of playing on the swings, etc.
Exactly we did the same thing. Eventually people began destroying them so we gave up :/ my Brother and I also build a treehouse, but we had to start over a few times, due to the treehouse being destroyed several times because it wasn't allowed -_- after building and painting a treehouse 3 times and it being destroyed we gave up. The treehouse was never finished:(
Same thing in my school, except we made up our own currency: bits of broken pottery, the more interesting the pottery, the more value. And we would end up selling sticks and crates to each other and some kids actually started renting parts of their dens to other kids.
during the fall and winter about 6 or 7 of us would get under the elevated part of the playground and used rocks to pin our jackets on the ledge of the playset so we basically made a cube-shaped teepee and had fun scaring the kids on top
I remember making a base with my friends out of sticks and leaves near the playground once we realised it was boring but months later the school cut the tree down which collapsed the base entirely
"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...
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.
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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
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
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
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
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.
@@ーワッフル 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.
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ワッフル i rather build a three story than fall on a rusty nail 😂
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
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
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.
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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
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
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.
“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 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
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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
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
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.
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.
"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-
I think that’s why most children prefer the swings over anything. It still gives a thrill. I remember being bored by the metal, squishy floored playground by my elementary school.
The one I lived by was much more beat up, everything was wood, and rocks replaced foam or mulch. I think I was better off for it.
I like the swings but i HATE the swirly wirly (or whatever its called) cuz everytime i get on it i want to throw up. One time i actually did throw up but it wasnt vomiting like just like 1/4 vomiting.
I love the swings they are great 👌👌👌🆗️🆗️😜😜😜🤭
Same
i always go for the swings when i was a kid.
The swings are the only fun piece of equipment at my playground.
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.
"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.
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@@LiLiKOiOiOi oh hey army 👋😉
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
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?
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
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!
@@sugarfree6959 Who said I was complaining?😄
Literally we did that to! It was like the chicken crossing the road
Me: * is 14 *
Also me: "make that playground bigger and I'd still play in it."
In my city there's literally no playground and the streets are lined with stores, plus it's unsafe. I literally sit in my house 24/7 during the holidays.
I totally agree my family still sometimes go to the park and the only thing I do is walk back and forth but that still looks fun even as a teenager
Where do u live?
@@nafisamahjabin5288 Indonesia :P
All the parks in my place used to be great but now they’ve all been “refurbished” to be all safe. There used to be a massive slide in one of the parks, that was taken down and replaced with a wide plastic slide that isn’t even a metre off the ground.
I’m 16 and I’d play in it too lol
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
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.
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@@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
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
@@hiflamingo ...but it isn't rain and thunderstorms now is it
@@theoneabovemost7865 Sure...
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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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.
"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
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?
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.
I remember when I was a kid we went to one of those safe playgrounds and we got bored so quickly that by the next day we had gone to the nearby woods and built a rope swing with my dad and to this day it is still there
aw that’s awesome!
@@wereallpinkinside8452 indeed it was. We built another,much bigger one but when we came back to it one day somebody had cut it down which is a shame because it wasn't just us who used it everyone loved it and in the summer there was queues of almost a dozen people waiting to swing
@@jackmehoff9927 i want go there thou
@@therealicecat I went back there not long before the lockdown and unfortunately it had been cut down by a group of teenagers. I will try to make a new one after the lockdown and will post a video if I do
thats probably why everyone at my school fought over the tire swing
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
“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
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
3:17 Can confirm--as a kid on a "bridge-and-domed-roof" safe playground like the ones mentioned at the beginning of the video, my first though was always, "How do I get on the roof?"
Lol that sounds like me.
tbh i still honestly think "what's the stupidest thing I can do to get on the roof?"
@@moze. lol I'm 30 years old and I still think that!
First thought is to get on the roof. Second is how to travel to the other side of the playground without getting off of the roof. Seriously though, I don't know if it's because I'm sixteen or what. Playgrounds are boring and I would rather be off in the woods climbing a tree.
In the 4th grade of elementary school, we got kinda tired of the play structure and so we used to go out into the grass and dig holes, hoping one day to find dinosaur bones. If we had tools and materials, I could guarantee we would have built anything we could imagine.
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
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
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.
One time I got a rusty nail in my foot at an adventure playground, I cried for like an hour, but I learned to not wear flip-flops and run, I'm still salty about it though
Lol
Same experience here. Two rusty nails in the middle of my foot. I had trouble walking a for some days but I learned to always pay lots of attention in such areas..
I got a rusty nail stuck in my foot once while playing with some of my distant cousins. No adults were around so a random stranger had to get it out.
Carter Bohrer (Student) idk i mean it never happened to me and as far as i know i turned out fine
@Carter Bohrer (Student) adults can still be taught. We dont stop learning once we go through puberty lol
"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.
I can understand the lack of adventure in kids. I babysit a 9 and 11 year old. All they do is play with iPads because they have no clue of what else to do. Parents constantly think everything is dangerous and kids only have one thing to satiate adventure, video games. Yet parents continue to complain about tech despite being the ones that prevent adventure. Anytime I visit Bulgaria, my home country allows kids starting from ages 7 to be out and hangout with kids their own age without parental vision, come to America and I rarely see kids outside and only see iPads and iPhones because that’s all any of us have known. It’s sad
Its mainly due to the human trafficking that happens here in the US that us american kids don’t have that much freedom to walk around with kids their own age.
@Jou T5 « over emotional women »? if parents are overly protective it’s because there’s a consensus between the mother and the father... what a disrespectful comment...
Then please, live in Bulgaria. I know 99% of y'all wish you lived in the US the country of ACTUAL freedom.
@@secretmasculinity wut
@@secretmasculinity get a load of this guy
I remember being incredibly bored on safe playgrounds and we never had an adventure playground in our neighborhood so we just went in the forest, brought our own tools and searched for natural building materials. We built amazing huts and treehouses and nowadays I would love to return to those times!!
That's stupid, why didn't you just play Minecraft??
So true! We would go to the safe playground for like 5 minutes, but would spend hours in the woods, climbing trees and trying to build stuff. I think we coddle children too much now days. When i was a kid my mom would let us walk to the playground (the unsafe one-it was old and had the classic stuff) by ourselves and we loved it. I saw a couple of years ago that some parents got taken to court for doing the same thing. so sad :(
@@superdudeman666 doing it irl is harder and something not many can or are willing to do, which makes the work unique in a way. besides i think hes talking about the past when mc didnt really exist...
@@stevensnails1510 Pretty sure he was joking
R/quityourbullshit
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
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
@@Astupeur2763 I mean it would help if there was something to do outside
@@Astupeur2763 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
Same
I feel like it would be best if we built a normal playground, and next to it we would put a adventure playground. That way the kids themselves could decide if they wanted to take risks or go with the safer option. That added level of choice would make them feel a lot more independent, and if a child gets hurt or bored on one playground, they can just go to the other one next time instead of stopping playing altogether.
You don't always have the space or the money to build 2 playgrounds next to each other
@@artofdesign1351 just split the lot you were already zoning and flow the parental seating areas as a sort of “imagined barrier” filling gaps between the two parks
Idk where you live but in my neighborhood we have a playground just like that it is so sweet and perfect for both types of kids 😌
Most parent would make the choice for their kid though:/
Would lead to a lot of peer pressure, and the kids who want the safe option being forced to play rough when they don't want to
As a teenager I think this type of playground is really cool
@Carter Bohrer (Student) Well said
@InfectedGamez shhh they don't know that-
@N. Altime
Whoa that sounds fun. If I did that at my school I'll get into a lot of trouble.
I think ours was for kids from around 8 to 18. And yes it was really cool, but it was kinda far away for me and school got hard so I seldom found time to go there...
InfectedGamez all throughout my teenage years which was just a few years ago, my friends and I would go hangout at the park and use the swings. It’s very common. There’s not a lot of free public spaces to go to other than parks.
*_*suddenly remembers that one Spongebob episode when Mr. Krabs made a junk playground*_*
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Krabby land
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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”
I grew up playing at the safe playground during the early 2000s.. but i still ended up with bruises and wounds. I remember when i used to go to the playground with my friends and we started to get bored playing there. So instead we seek for thrill in doing dangerous stuff such as climbing on top of the monkey bars, swings etc.. Now, i think that maybe all of this was the result of the safe playground. So I really do support the adventure playground..
Same thing for me growing up
i fractured a small bone in my wrist on a safe playground. wasnt really safe. in order to make sure the structure stood well they filled the sandpit where the structure was with concrete and went over it with maybe a foot of sand. on that same playground i hit my jaw on a platform from slipping on the stair and knocked my two front teeth out. i sprained my ankle, nearly broke my skull on a stunt bar ( they're lower to the ground) yet ive never once injured myself playing in the woods building forts out of branches or in my back yard climing the fence or the pine tree. i mean i fell off that fence into my neihbours yard directly onto my back but i didnt get any serious injury. i also played with tools and nails in the shed. no injury there either.
rushed to the ER on multiple occasions with a common playground, never once when i was left to just do whatever.
even now we have a common playground just outside my current backyard and either very few kids are playing and those that are are pushing eachother off the slide into the sand, climing to the top of the dome itself only to get yelled at by a supervising adult. and i, also an adult, gets yelled at by parents for giving kids brooms to use as flags for capture the flag. saying the game itself is too dangerous.
kids arent even allowed to play red rover. or tag, or groundhog. its annoying
same. my friend broke her bone because we went on a spinning thing that could only support 3 people, with like 7 xD
Yes same my childhood! But at the same time tho because we were bored of these playgrounds we started inventing our own games but idk I remember stumbling on some harsh tower and bruising my legs.. ah childhood
same here. I remember I fell and scraped myself up all the time at school on the playground because kids were trying to make it more dangerous/thrilling. Kids would see who could jump off the highest point of the playground, who could flip their body backwards on metal bars, climb on top of the monkey bars and sit there. It felt like every day someone at my school got injured and sent to the nurse from the playground because we kept trying to make it better
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? 🤣🤭
"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 .
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
lol
Same! I never saw one of these as a kid, why shouldn't I experience it as a grownup?
@internet person do tell.
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...
As a teenager, I feel so bad for just wanting to sit on my phone all day. But playgrounds now are just soooo boring after about 5 mins. And the ones that are fun are far away. I love the parks where it’s open and have some fun and inventive play structures.
@CHONK gator Playgrounds are for all!!
@CHONK gator
They’re for everyone- if you can fit though-
@CHONK gator my 16 year old brother plays on a playground lol
Near my nans house there always was this giant park with a maze,flying fox that glides through the whole park, biking and scootering areas, giant swings,tall climbing equipment and slides, another giant maze with cool things to do when you get stuck, sometimes there were markets going on and a food court for whenever we have to go home we would always buy fish and chips
It's basically the best park I ever went too despite that all the parks near my regular house are all small or filled with covid testing areas so we aren't allowed to go there anymore
@@ourtube652 the playground in my club doesnt allowed people above 10, im 13 so i had to lie about my age
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
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
There's no way this could be done today. Too many ppl are ready and willing to sue whoever or whatever lol
J-Pocket there's actually one in the city next to mine! i went there a lot growing up :)
Should be some kind of disclaimer or force you to sign something before ya enter
there's loads in england everywhere as well!
Maybe that's the case in America
Playgrounds with a no sue clause upon entry.
So an "adventure playground" is exactly the same as playing out behind the barn where your dad throws junk so it can't be seen from the road? All snark aside, I really do love this
Yeah, it’s pretty much about discovering stuff on your own
Jenna Schroeder Yeah, as a kid, me and my friends would’ve loved this. We found ways to accidentally hurt ourselves , no matter how safe the playground.
I remember back in elementary, people tended to gravitate towards the field rather than the playground. They loved the open space and would often find thinks like sticks, pebbles, and even litter to create small structures. People also loved finding weeds, flowers, caterpillars, beetles, birds, and more. I remember finding a turtle once. All of these experiences wouldn’t have been created if we were strictly bound to the playground.
Same!
I remember digging with wood chips into the ground because I thought the concrete under the soccer goal was a fossil lol
Lol digging in the field has always been a staple of recess time.
I remember trying to dig to lava with my friends
@@pc5890 My backyard had a small woods, and there were these really big peices of concreate me and my
friends would play on, we would just climb, sit or just hangout there.I was convinced they were giant dinosor fossils. Honestly, that woods was way more fun then any sort of safe playground could get.
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
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.
Who as a kid climbed things at a playground that shouldn’t have been climbed on
Me I’m kid now
Me. I'm in 8th grade rn, and I remember climbing up the slides. Until they changed it for it to be harder to do that.
Everyone, I think lol. For example, there was this sort of tunnel on one of the playground, and I probably passed over it ten times more than I passed in it. The tunnel was like 2 meters above the ground and the sides were quite slippy.
that's what I do a when I get bored at the trash playgrounds
Most people did when they were kids.
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
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.
0:15 I looked at that picture for soo long, just to realise it wasn’t photoshop, just a kid jumping onto a mattress,,
Oh that's what it is
Yeah, that kid with a red shirt looked like a giant at first.
Bananappleboy World I thought that was a grown man before I saw ur comment XD
@@ender4344 yeah same. It even looked like he was holding a tool and helping that kid behind him.
Ender same lol
I wish I'd had an adventure playground, because I am now scared of everything.
same
same tbh
Same T_T
Me too
My mom didn't let me do much as a kid so now it takes a lot of effort to go and be adventurous
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 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.
In Britain and the USA, one of the funniest examples of insulating children from taking risks was the installation of child-proof protective caps on the chemical vials in some children's chemistry sets. This means that the kid may have to ask his parents to help him with the chemistry experiments, rather than doing anything on his own.
I remember in elementary school the game ‘squish the lemon’. The kids would all go down the slide at once sideways, and try to stack on eachother without falling off the slide. We crushed eachother! And it was our favorite game!
That was great, haha
Or the butterfly. We basically went down the slide in groups of 4 all together and it was super fun
we had a really wide slide where we we would play a game where everyone would sit on top of it and someone had tu run up the slide and. try to pull down people
VRASKA
Me and my friends had one where we would push each other down a slide and
try not get pushed our selves while yelling battle cries
Getting hurt as a kid is part of childhood. I don’t know one person who doesn’t laugh and reminisce about getting a scrapped knee or slamming into a pole
Oh yes my favorite memory 👿
Then, here I am. I sure don't laugh at my injuries, I simply accept that they exist.
Well, I’m here. Guess you know someone. It’s not that I never played at the playground or anywhere else, but as a kid, I was really cautious.
Oh yeah... I remember when I was 9, I was running in a forest and my foot hit a tree root and I fell on the ground. I cried but at least now I'm more careful than before.
@@leoraxion2952 because you didn't land with your eye on the root. But you could. You could hit your head on a rock. Many, many kids did, and died. we say it was all nice and fun because we made it up to adulthood, but in fact kids who live that unsupervised life die from time to time
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
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"
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:
I don’t like most play grounds I like to find things to build a fort with.
Someone has 500 fortnite wins
@@Jimk435 Nobody mentioned a single thing about fortnite
@@SergioGonzalez-jc5tq it was a joke
Same, if my mom brings me to a play ground I find myself sitting on a bench not knowing what to do
When I was younger, there was a patch of bushes that me and my friends slowly turned into a base of sorts. There was a tree in the middle that we used as a watchtower and we made little rooms for people to hide in.
Parents: You never get exercise/go outside!
Me when I was a kid: Can I go bike outside?
parents: *No i'm busy*
Edit: *Clarification, as I stated, this is what happened when I was a kid. I'm now old enough and trusted enough to go outside on my own.*
I don't get it.
@@paperdrum39 the person's parents would complain around how they don't go outside, so when they finally decide to go outside, the parents have an excuse as for why they can't go.
@@timbit4190 ohhh
@@timbit4190 But why does it matter if the parents are busy? You don't need parents with you to go bike outside.
Yeah, but some parents don’t like it when their kids go out without them
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...
I've literally never been to a playground. My childhood was all about feeding goats and cows, climbing trees, hiking with my father, and keeping all of these things a secret from my mother who was deathly afraid of everything XD Bless her heart she was the best mother I could've ever asked for but she was also the most overprotective being you could ever meet! It wasn't until I was a teenager that she learned that I had been doing all of these things with my dad and my grandfather
This Random Socialist hey we have something in common.
Must be why you're a Socialist. Cause you have empathy and amazing parents
Katipunan ng Sentido Comun it’s just a username bruh
What was her reaction when she found out
@@BL4CKKN1GHT At this point? Actually pretty happy. She later realized that being scared of everything and everyone would have done more harm than good. She was happy that I was happy, and that's the most important thing.
Also imagine the team building. Working with a group of kids and teens to build something cool for everyone to use.
I didn't knew phineas and ferb was a thing in the 19th to 20th century
That sounds cool
*insert a comunism joke here*
@@Sciaining huh?
@@taleseylad1249 You built it, but it's OUR building
I think this is fine for older kids, like 8- 12. But I would not bring my 3 year old neice to one of these.
That's fine that's a good approach to it. It should always be at the parent's discretion. I just hate that we seem to be bowing to the lowest common denominator who don't want places like this.
And a lot of the safe playgrounds shown here have toddlers in mind when they were being made so it's obvious they're for very small children anyhow.
Yeah I don't want any of my babies eating nails
@@mastergirl922 what kind of baby you have?
@@seth9577 the kind that tries to grab anything and put it in their mouth
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.
i guess this explains why old people has awesome childhood memories to tell
no, my kid has a etter lidxjdhrbdhsxnjredsjendsknjedmw snjz
@@tubecraft5343 and whats that?
My neighbour told me a story about his childhood friends who constructed real guns powered by matches, one of them was scarry new teacher so she called a police.
My grandma: one time I got run over by a horse when I was 9 and broke my arm
Me when I’m old: I fell of the swings and broke my finger when I was a teenager
Lol I have barely anything to say about my childhood and I'm 2000 I should be able to remember something remarkable but mmm neh, once I fall of one of those safe playgrounds and then never climbed that high oops
"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.
when you treat kiddos like the inventors and architects of tomorrow, that might be just what u get🤷♂️
John Peric True
@@johnperic6860 not only america....
When i was kid there was no playground near my home, just an empty land with some stuff in it and in here I first learned why you should not burn spray cans and bottles
I honestly agree. Being an older kid when my babysitter says “let’s go to the playground” I hear “let’s be bored for an hour” another thing kinds of replayed but kind of not, my babysitter dosn’t understand that you can’t have fun without taking risks. Me and my babysitter’s daughter she is like 8 we’re having nerf battle with my nerf guns, we decided no fighting on the stairs, and we could go anywhere in the house expect for the basement, and my moms room these were the only rules. Then my babysitter thought this was to dangerous and made us use my plastic light up swords in only one room, the room she was in, because she needed to supervise us. (I really don’t think she did) the second I accidently hit her daughter slightly hard and she started laughing my babysitter told us to stop because someone is going to start crying. Like seriously even if one of us did start crying we were having a blast before that.
@@sirk603 yeeesssss someone gets it
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
When I was a kid I just ran around unsupervised in the forest.
Same. My friends and I would spend hours there, playing catch oder hide and seek or building bases and fairycastles
Same when I was growing up. We live in a rural area and both our kids spent a lot of time playing in the woods. Several trees still have boards nailed to them as ladders. The only problem now is the explosion of ticks and Lyme disease.
Same
I got an empty field with tall grass that would be behind all of the houses on my block to the end of cul-de-sac that we had several entry points into. The main way was through a neighbors front yard and down over the ditch with wooden plank or two acting as a bridge if the ditch had water in it. It lead to piles of debris from someone tearing up asphalt and sidewalk with dirt that we would mostly play on. I am pretty sure that the house manufacturing place actually owned the field that we would play in mostly but they never stopped us. Also at one point someone ran their four wheeler through a back section of it so we got a cool track that we could run around in too.
We ran around my historic distric neighborhood. A few abandoned houses to explore, alleys, lakes, empty lots, and the old "haunted" house on a corner lot that was hit by lighting 3+ times and no one lived in for more than a few months.
when i was in elementary school, we would all rather look at rolly pollies in the dirt than go on the playground for some reason
Rolly pollies are awesome that's why
Tbh rolly pollies are more interesting. Also my school banned the only fun game around so there's that. I kinda get why they would do that but the thing is no one ever got hurt while playing the game
@@grayskythunder in my school red rover got banned-
I feel that. In elementary school there was a small ant hill in the corner of the playground and we built an ant village for the ants with buildings and walls.
At my school they banned sitting on benches, just walking around during recess, tag, American football, futbol and baseball so we had to play on the equipment but then we just threw kickballs at each other
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
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!
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
There used to be an “adventure playground” near my house. My friends and I would spend hours on end messing around there playing all types of games that you would normally play on a playground. When I was about 10 they tore it up and replaced it with they new “safer” versions. Once done, we decided to give it a try and stayed for around 20 minutes. Bored, we left and playing at a park was never as enjoyable. TDLR: new playgrounds stink
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Sorry but you got the abbreviation tat the end mixed up; its TLDR
I remember playing catch and climbing on top of those tower roofs they have at playgrounds and then jumping down to the ground from them and praying you don't break your legs.
Kupaars wanted to like this but it’s at 69
yep. those helped me learn safe jumping distances lol
lol same and the scariest part was that sometimes i didn't wanted to jump because i had fear but i kind of needed to get of and climbing down was a struggle
Same. I even signed the top of those roof things
Me too! But our roofs were over sand so I was pretty safe jumping. These days little girls (and boys) are so sheltered. But my mom just shrugged off me climbing trees and dangling my feet over her head. We had a metal playground and we’d do flips on the bars. I did rock climbing with some friends recently and was amazed at how many people didn’t know to test a spot before shifting their weight into it. Rough playgrounds teach you useful skills.
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!
“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.
When I was in elementary school, it was a thing that kids built "shelters" out of leaves, mud and sticks and I remember we would literally have fights over the best sticks or building areas. All of this instead of playing on the swings, etc.
Exactly we did the same thing. Eventually people began destroying them so we gave up :/ my Brother and I also build a treehouse, but we had to start over a few times, due to the treehouse being destroyed several times because it wasn't allowed -_- after building and painting a treehouse 3 times and it being destroyed we gave up. The treehouse was never finished:(
Same thing in my school, except we made up our own currency: bits of broken pottery, the more interesting the pottery, the more value. And we would end up selling sticks and crates to each other and some kids actually started renting parts of their dens to other kids.
during the fall and winter about 6 or 7 of us would get under the elevated part of the playground and used rocks to pin our jackets on the ledge of the playset so we basically made a cube-shaped teepee and had fun scaring the kids on top
I remember making a base with my friends out of sticks and leaves near the playground once we realised it was boring but months later the school cut the tree down which collapsed the base entirely
@@evil_zebra4275 our currency was just nuts that feel from the tree because my friend said it's like raining money!
I remember back when I was a kid there was a badly design playground with a slide literally facing towards the road.
cloud ix population control
cloud ix Lmaoo
Copy pasting playgrounds wherever
*so....how many kids died?*
@@badmoth242xl3 exactly what I thought