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when i was growing up , i didne have any play like this stff either the swing or the slide , but with my daugher me and her father always make sure to buy to her al these plays and we have a small corner in ou house for these palys. but i wish i cold play in adult- area too like jeff.

In my childhood we played football and basketball at our playgarden. But now it’s not privately funded or government funded. There no possible to play basketall because the baskets are broken. So I don’t see children playing there as it was in my childhood.

I guess, nowadays, many children aren t able to use a playground without instructions. due to computers and  tv, many of them have lost the creativity . they need be guided by elder ppl. we never had that problem…....... because at that time, tv was seldom in our houses. and computers???? no one had that at home

when we have finished school, we made our work and went out, to meet our friends. soooo nice, and we never need to phone them. why ????  our days have been lucky . I m sure, kids will miss that a lot.

What I think about fully equipped playgrounds – they’re boring. Swings for swinging, slides for sliding, monkey bars for climbing. So what’s new? Where’s creativity, where’re the boulders, logs, trees, mother nature with its grass on which the kids can run playing tags and can figure out what to do with that log, how to play with it, or  big trees with the challenge to climb up and without parental protection like they’re hovering above their kids everywhere now.  And when the kid is 16 years old he says – the whole day I haven’t eaten a crumb because I don’t know how to slice the bread… Survival skills are missing…

I had a big playground to go as a kid. It was really exciting going there. It was located near my neighborhood.  

In my childhood there were no luxury playgrounds as it is now. We just had a swing with the broken seat and that’s it. But I want to tell that there was lots trees, big trees and that let us climb on them, pick apples, nuts and just climbing. The lack of playground equipment let us be more creative in playing other games such as tag and the others like we made a hole in the ground and from the distance marked by lines were throwing home keys into that hole and the winner was who aimed the sharpest. Sometimes somebody aimed just right into the target from the first time. It was so exciting. The other game was – we were throwing a small knife in a circle drawn on the ground. The idea was like whose piece of a pie will be the biggest is the winner. Nobody was hurt or cut, it was just a game. Everything was safe. We also made our own secrets. Took a piece of broken bottle glass, cleaned it, put candy wrap under and hid it in a soil. And then we were showing each other our secrets by undigging the upper layer of the soil showing just a candy wrap under the glass. It was cute. And my favorite, i still miss it is this one. 

Jeff’s questioning of kids playing grounds being funded by taxpayers regardless of their status about having children is a frequent attitude in the USA. In fact, such anti-public, anti-government pro-individual choice sentiments seem on the rise since the economic crisis of 2008.  

I wanted Jeff to press his point of view harder and clarify his reasoning, so that we non-Americans can understand about an important ideological undercurrent that divides the Republicans and the Democrats in American politics. 

Now we don’t need any playgrouns,children just like ground with a lot of tablet and computers.my little sister like computer more than park.

Now we don’t need any playgrouns,children just like ground with a lot of tablet and computers.my little sister like computer more than park.

Once, I saw a swing, as an interior, inside a coffee shop.
I wondered how people drink coffee with swinging.I assume some people use some play equipments to inspire imagination.
In my case, I just only use them for physical exercises. Horizontal bar is good for chin-up exercise.

in the past my favorite playmate was my cousin.she lived anather city that very far from us.so every summer i was waited her to come to our grandpa’s home.

every morning i catched some money from my father and buy some cookii.

we palyed  all duration of our day we had many good advanture together.

now she married and her husband and she are waiting their doughter coz she is pregnants

at that time we played in alleys with lots of children our favorite play was playing soccor and there was a big tree front of my grandfather’s house which was bult a swing ,was so fun and now there r many playground here for kids bt i wish there was some for adult 2.i missed that days

Here in UAE we have alot of playgrounds. As I am living in Abu Dhabi, you can find many playgrounds near the beach. Which is very cool

Even though I am not child but I still play with kids. I like play swing and slide. ^^

In my country we don’t have many playgrounds for children. you can find just two playgrounds for all town and it’s not in our culture to take children there. Playgrounds are not free ! our child have space for run off in house.

At that time parks in our neighborhood didn`t have playground. just one of them had a swing.I like the playground which was near my grandparent`s house. unfortunately it was far from our house so I couldn`t go there every day.

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oh, at that time, we didn t have playgrounds

but…...we never ever missed them

we grow up in a village, so many places to go without traffic

We had forest to play, creeks for swimming. LIfe have been

exiting , also without tv or computers….. so I became close

to nature. and now, after decades; I love nature too

sounds like gay “Lets go_~<3”  

where to? doggie house? 

Hi to all friends here!

When I was a child,about 65 years ago, in the 50’ years, the way was the playground of all us children. At that time there were not cars on the road,because only the rich people had a car.We didn’t have slide or other fun play equipment, but we were able to build a swing with a rope between two fig trees or to build an horse with the iron wire !! Fortunately, since many years  and thanks our God (Any name He is called),our children and grandchildren can use public playgrounds and spend there their energy , enjoying with their young friends.