Heights Park In Richardson.. (buy, living, safe)

[MaryS80]

The play equipment at this park was safe enough to entertain three generations or children, but soon it will be gone. Now we live in an age of political correctness, and helicopter parents who want their kids to live in word covered in Lysol and bubble wrap.

Richardson, TX

The park does not meet the American with disabilities act because the equipment is not accessible by the disabled.

Supposedly its not safe enough, but again how many thousands of kids have played here of the course of several decades?

Merry go rounds at long gone, metal slides are disappearing, teeter totters are also disappearing. Now the unique equipments the at represents optimism of the past will soon be gone. What gives? Boo boos and scrapped knees are a part of childhood.

I wonder if the people living back then, looking forward to the "space age" that great future had any idea what would really happen?

[Macbeth2003]

The same insanity that led to the removal of see saws. When I lived up there my three/four year old loved the rocket ship. He complained the other day that there isn't anything like that down here. "All the parks have the same stuff"

[FarNorthDallas]

Richardson, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's a link to a picture of the Rocket Ship, scroll down a bit and it's on the right. I played there in the late 60s and my son played there, too, more recently. It will be missed! It's such a cool playground.

[MurphyPl1]

Originally Posted by Macbeth2003

The same insanity that led to the removal of see saws. When I lived up there my three/four year old loved the rocket ship. He complained the other day that there isn't anything like that down here. "All the parks have the same stuff"

FWIW when I was a kid all those seesaws, merry-go-rounds and metal slides were "the same stuff" as all the other parks.

[Debsi]

That's a bummer. I thought they tried to get rid of that rocketship before and it was saved..That's what a friend of mine told me.

[momof2dfw]

Here is the sad AND funny thing about all of this. A LOT of that so-called "unsafe" equipment was put in since I had kids and was THOUGHT to be "much safer" and now they are saying it is not. Well NOTHING is 100% absolute SAFE for a child NOT to sustain a scrape or any kind of injury PERIOD! They can be running on their OWN front sidewalk, fall and scrape their knees. Who are the parents going to sue then? God for giving their kids legs that are fully functional that enabled them to run in the first place.

The other problem is the parents themselves. Every one of those deaths (and to lose a child in a tragic death would be HORRIBLE) probably could have been prevented IF the PARENTS would have been properly supervising their own child. One died because the STRINGS on their mittens got tangled up. Well then PARENTS, don't buy clothes that have strings hanging off of them or at least don't let your kids wear them when playing on equipment. Sorry but if and when my kids are/were at the park playing I was PAYING ATTENTION to them and what they were doing even if I was with other moms. If my kid would have gotten their neck tangled around something in their clothing on a piece of playground equipment I would have gotten them out of whatever clothing it was in no time flat or would have cut it off w/ my own teeth. And the first time I would have seen my kid attempt to stick their head thru the bars or something they would have gotten in trouble by me. But page 31 of the safety audit says it all, most kids are NOT supervised when playing.

Sad to see the rocket ship go. What a bummer. And you know the city won't be able to even to use it as any kind of decoration as some fool would still try to climb it and get hurt then sue the city.

[Macbeth2003]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

But page 31 of the safety audit says it all, most kids are NOT supervised when playing.

Sad to see the rocket ship go. What a bummer. And you know the city won't be able to even to use it as any kind of decoration as some fool would still try to climb it and get hurt then sue the city.

Yeah. I understand older kids not being supervised. I remember simply going out with friend with the "be back by dinner" shouted over my head as I went, but when I took my little one there, not only was he supervised, but I made sure I could climb up into the rocketship in an emergency. It wasn't comfortable - but I could do it, only then was he allowed to play on it.

[MaryS80]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Here is the sad AND funny thing about all of this. A LOT of that so-called "unsafe" equipment was put in since I had kids and was THOUGHT to be "much safer" and now they are saying it is not. Well NOTHING is 100% absolute SAFE for a child NOT to sustain a scrape or any kind of injury PERIOD! They can be running on their OWN front sidewalk, fall and scrape their knees. Who are the parents going to sue then? God for giving their kids legs that are fully functional that enabled them to run in the first place.

The other problem is the parents themselves. Every one of those deaths (and to lose a child in a tragic death would be HORRIBLE) probably could have been prevented IF the PARENTS would have been properly supervising their own child. One died because the STRINGS on their mittens got tangled up. Well then PARENTS, don't buy clothes that have strings hanging off of them or at least don't let your kids wear them when playing on equipment. Sorry but if and when my kids are/were at the park playing I was PAYING ATTENTION to them and what they were doing even if I was with other moms. If my kid would have gotten their neck tangled around something in their clothing on a piece of playground equipment I would have gotten them out of whatever clothing it was in no time flat or would have cut it off w/ my own teeth. And the first time I would have seen my kid attempt to stick their head thru the bars or something they would have gotten in trouble by me. But page 31 of the safety audit says it all, most kids are NOT supervised when playing.

Sad to see the rocket ship go. What a bummer. And you know the city won't be able to even to use it as any kind of decoration as some fool would still try to climb it and get hurt then sue the city.

Very well said.

[RE Diva]

My little guy's going to be so bummed. He loves the "Rocket Ship" park. Thanks for the head's up.

[PlanoGirl]

Thanks for the info. i played in that park as a child...actually my mom met her best friend (who has now passed on) in that park when my brother & I were very young. We will have to go visit it again soon before they remove it