Oct 11, 2026 · 8 min · 9 segments
Playgrounds used to be made from splintery wood and hot, rusty metal... and the ground surfaces were asphalt or concrete – ouch! This episode will answer questions like: - What did playgrounds…
Something like 12% of all children who front at hospital emergency wards are injured in playground mishaps, usually in the school yard.
And the injuries can be quite horrific.
I take a lot of risks
in the playgrounds.
At the park, there's ropes coming up to get to the third platform and I was climbing on them and I fell because it was slippery and my legs got caught, I got rope burned and I fell all the way back down to the bottom, smacked my back on the metal, it was very painful.
Ouch! Maybe that park hadn't been updated in a few decades because playgrounds in the 60s, 70s and 80s were renowned for being danger zones.
Something like 12% of all children who front at hospital emergency wards are injured in playground mishaps, usually in the school yard.
And the injuries can be quite horrific.
I take a lot of risks
in the playgrounds.
At the park, there's ropes coming up to get to the third platform and I was climbing on them and I fell because it was slippery and my legs got caught, I got rope burned and I fell all the way back down to the bottom, smacked my back on the metal, it was very painful.
Ouch! Maybe that park hadn't been updated in a few decades because playgrounds in the 60s, 70s and 80s were renowned for being danger zones.
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