The article " Can a Playground Be Too Safe?" touched on many important points of playground safety and how it may be too strict. Dr. Sandseter states "Climbing equipment needs to be high enough, or else it will be too boring in the long run." I agree with Dr. Sandseter about how important it is to give children the opportunity to be challenged and take risks. Even if the risks are as simple as climbing a 4 foot ladder or going down the big slide. If we make the playground equipment too safe the children wont be able to grow from using it. Nowadays children are easily able to get hurt , so parents will create lawsuits against the playground and manufacturers. " Older children are discouraged from taking healthy exercise on playgrounds because
