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fromSlate Magazine
3 days ago

I Used to Love Our Local Playground. This Common Behavior From Other Parents Is Keeping Me Away.

Parents should accept responsibility to intervene when unsupervised children are at risk and embrace the role of informal playground monitor.
fromHuffPost
1 month ago

The 13 Rudest Playground Behaviours You Or Your Kid May Be Guilty Of

If you've got a restless child on your hands, getting to a playground can be a welcome relief. Your kid can run off some steam and find other kids to play with, and you may even get a moment to yourself to sit on a bench and relax. But the peace of playgrounds depends on a delicate ecosystem in which all the adults tacitly agree to the same codes of conduct, both for their children and themselves. One person's rude behaviour can sour the experience for everybody - and no one wants to be that parent.
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