The pros and cons of a trip to the playground | Parents and parenting
Down we go: a child laughs in a playground. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Down we go: a child laughs in a playground. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.30 EDT Last modified on Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.41 EDT ‘I love slide,’ cries my son with greater emotion than he has ever mustered for me, the man who has fed and clothed him since birth, not to mention facilitated 90% of every slide interaction he’s ever had. We’re at the playground. Not Big Playground, which is what we call the sprawling, Byzantine ludoplex in the larger park 15 minutes away, that has six slides, eigh...