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i am developing hate in my heart for the playground inspection people. so many iconic play elements gone. and they're still after the remaining ones. they have no room for nuance. you can't explain to them no one ever got hurt on the fireman's pole, or the rope swing https://t.co/rih8KV9wPk
it's one thing to have a public park where parents might be busy talking; this is a preschool that's a very supervised environment. there's always eyes on every kid. they can be riskier, because the adults are there to stop them if they're ever doing imminently dangerous
kids learn to walk across high bridges, use real knives, or do things dangerous for their age, but not their ability. because they did it around adults, who hung closer when it was riskier, and provided intermediate risks
@AskYatharth omg yes and also kids need this mild risk. obviously they need it to learn to gauge similar risks in the future. a stronger claim, though, which I support with ~medium confidence: it's just generally good for their minds and souls.
so the children take little risks, taking on bigger and bigger ones, always taking on each risk reasonably safely and that seems to translate into kids developing the awareness to do this kind of problem-solving on their own, when there's no adults around
risk-taking—that feeling of managing your felt sense of risk? it's a real skill. you have to come to know that felt feeling in your body. you have to make decisions, see what happens. it's absolutely a skill, and kids are safer with riskier playgrounds that build that skill https://t.co/F7ouQDco1U
we’ve done the sterilised playground thing for long enough we have data on this now. more injuries happen in these safe playground grounds, with bored kids trying to make something, anything happen, with no practice with making things happen
but try explaining all that to a bureaucracy. they don’t listen. it doesn’t have to be this way. a good bureaucracy has the standard, too-safe rules, but gets to know the preschools. over time, they can built relationships with schools, build trust they’re safe, and allow more
this is how the preschool itself works with parents. they develop relationships, so when stuff goes wrong (as it inevitably does sometime), there’s trust to fall back on https://t.co/N8Xe04MmdA
bureaucracies are perfectly capable of doing this, even in their own standards-based, justifiable way. having different risk levels, having some standard criteria that moves schools into a more trusted zone. they do this all the time. bureaucracies can be good
elementary school and onward seems sooo regulated, if these kids don’t get these chances in preschool, they might never get them https://t.co/udPN6wZMWO
i don't know. it's actually really wholesome, and sensible. i think i was just taken aback at the sudden realisation all of these kids are expected to go into a system where they will sit all day in the most mobile age of their lives with the same autonomy as a factory worker
except outside the vicinity of adults. only illegally, only in a way you must not bring to the attention of an adult, only in contexts more dangerous, only without felt practice with the felt feeling of danger in their body
> "outdated" which I assume basically means it's deemed unsafe https://t.co/A2wYRv6Jkg
from the preconquest consciousness film record: https://t.co/afJ4tEJFNK
> "the choice of play objects to manipulate and test is left to the child > and he is not deprived of sharp and potentially dangerous objects such as axes and knives > I have yet to see a toddler hurt from this kind of play" from the preconquest consciousness film record https://t.co/7mtyu9oZUS
