The photo above shows a playground from the early 1900s.
I know what you’re thinking: Could something like that even exist today? And should it?
While you’re thinking that over, consider this perspective from Lady Allen of Hurtwood, a leader of the playground movement in Great Britain during the 1940s:
Better a broken arm than a broken spirit.
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Ian Underwood is the author of the Bare Minimum Books series (BareMinimumBooks.com). He has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA, the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service, co-founder of Bardo Farm and Shaolin Rifleworks, and a popular speaker at liberty-related events. He lives in Croydon, New Hampshire.
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