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If Im reading this correctly, kids were getting burned by rubber mats around the playground. Im infuriated by the comments saying this is the caretakers fault for not having shoes on the kids.
Yes it was hot. My kids play on playgrounds when it is hot. They have never been burned.
This has NOTHING to do with the parents. This has EVERYTHING to do with faulty playground design.
Am I reading the article correctly. Do people on here think it is the parents (or caretakers) fault?
People posting comments seem to be focusing on the lack of shoes. What happens if a kid is running and trips? This happens CONSTANTLY! What then. Who's fault then?
Im really really po'd about some of the comments I read.
I live in the south, and it's kind of humorous (to me) to see these apartments billing themselves with playgrounds for the kids...and then you see this metal slide and these plastic swings. C'mon, now.
Yes, it its the parents' fault for allowing their kids to run around without their shoes on in excessive temperatures. My god, I had sense enough to test the metal slide before I used it, and that was over 40 years ago. Why didn't the parents do that? I won't even walk my dog on concrete it it's too hot for me!
NOT the designer's fault... it's common sense, and it seems there's a serious shortage of if these days. Parents these days expect the world to be rubber padded for their kids, now that they've got it, they're still complaining.
You know companies are damned if they do and damned if they dont. I read this article this morning. They put the rubber mats there because kids were getting hurt with the mulch that was there before.
Now the parents are complaining that the feet are getting burned. Can someone like a parent actually take responsibility these days or does it always have to be the big company??
My kids go barefoot much of the time, so I have nothing against parents who let their kids run around with no shoes. However, I would never take my kids to use a metal slide in summer's heat. That's just common sense! If we're at a playground with wood mulch, I insist that they wear shoes so they don't cut their feet. If it's a sand playground I'll let them go barefoot, but not if it's scorching hot, because they could burn their feet. I will let my kids walk down the driveway to the mailbox barefoot in the spring and fall and on cool summer days, but not when it's very hot, because again, they will burn their feet.
It just amazes me that we exist. I mean, all the prior generations were not in protective bubbles and yet managed to live into adulthood. How the he** did we accomplish that??? We must be super freakin heros! I remember when the surface at the playground was CEMENT or better yet DIRT!!
Friends of mine did, in fact, break limbs at the playground. No one got sued. They got a cool trip in an ambulance and an even cooler cast that we could all draw on and weird tan lines that summer!
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