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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 451798" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I worked for a man selling playground equipment and I am still a card holding member of the CPSP and Nation Parks and Recreation Programs and I can tell you this much......you CAN check the statisitics from OUR days on the playgrounds to now and the death rates HAVE dropped. *death rates* from improper and unsafe, unmanaged equipment that kids have played on. CPSC or Child Protection Safety Commission was and has been designed to make head fall injuries nearly non-existant. HOWEVER the Dr. that I worked for STILL was an expert witness (at over $250.00 /hr.) in lawsuit/wrongful death and injury cases involving playground equipment and the pictures and cases that we saw were horrific EVEN WITH the safety guidelines in place. MOSTLY? Because of natural elements ie: tree roots, broken bottles/trash on playgrounds, trip hazards, and the biggest NON ATTENTIVE PARENTS/Care-Givers on play equipment that was not supervised for children for that age.</p><p></p><p>They changed the fall height (critical fall height) and added a cushion with a containment barrier for a reason. LESS BROKEN BONES. There are LESS pinch and ENTRAPMENT enclosures on ALL equipment and it is AGE appropriate for SKILL levels so as not to pull and rip muscles and supposedly to build confidence. Now that last part? Meh. And what was once referred to as a Dentitsts Dream? No longer exists in hopes of averting lost teeth. </p><p></p><p>The problem that I see? Is perfectly demonstrated in one commercial where the Father comes home and yells for his kids and they are all inside - and he flips the breaker stopping the stereo, TV, and video games, computer and they all have to GET OFF THEIR BUTTS....GET OUTSIDE AND ACTUALLY USE some of the play equipment..</p><p></p><p>Then again? I think we all forget that a long time ago most of us could go out at dawn and come back at dusk and hardly have to worry about perverts and sex predators either - without our parents being in the park or woods either. So while it would be nice to send the kids out to play like it was when we were young? We can't anymore - times have changed. But you CAN unplug the video games and the computer and make them read, and take them to the library, -------but then again why bother - just down load a book on Kindle. Lest ye get a papercut. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 451798, member: 4964"] I worked for a man selling playground equipment and I am still a card holding member of the CPSP and Nation Parks and Recreation Programs and I can tell you this much......you CAN check the statisitics from OUR days on the playgrounds to now and the death rates HAVE dropped. *death rates* from improper and unsafe, unmanaged equipment that kids have played on. CPSC or Child Protection Safety Commission was and has been designed to make head fall injuries nearly non-existant. HOWEVER the Dr. that I worked for STILL was an expert witness (at over $250.00 /hr.) in lawsuit/wrongful death and injury cases involving playground equipment and the pictures and cases that we saw were horrific EVEN WITH the safety guidelines in place. MOSTLY? Because of natural elements ie: tree roots, broken bottles/trash on playgrounds, trip hazards, and the biggest NON ATTENTIVE PARENTS/Care-Givers on play equipment that was not supervised for children for that age. They changed the fall height (critical fall height) and added a cushion with a containment barrier for a reason. LESS BROKEN BONES. There are LESS pinch and ENTRAPMENT enclosures on ALL equipment and it is AGE appropriate for SKILL levels so as not to pull and rip muscles and supposedly to build confidence. Now that last part? Meh. And what was once referred to as a Dentitsts Dream? No longer exists in hopes of averting lost teeth. The problem that I see? Is perfectly demonstrated in one commercial where the Father comes home and yells for his kids and they are all inside - and he flips the breaker stopping the stereo, TV, and video games, computer and they all have to GET OFF THEIR BUTTS....GET OUTSIDE AND ACTUALLY USE some of the play equipment.. Then again? I think we all forget that a long time ago most of us could go out at dawn and come back at dusk and hardly have to worry about perverts and sex predators either - without our parents being in the park or woods either. So while it would be nice to send the kids out to play like it was when we were young? We can't anymore - times have changed. But you CAN unplug the video games and the computer and make them read, and take them to the library, -------but then again why bother - just down load a book on Kindle. Lest ye get a papercut. lol [/QUOTE]
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