Perhaps the real issue is that adults are fussing too much and not allowing children to climb as much as they used to so that when they finally do they are not confident and dont have the skills.

But then again perhaps we simply need to make the World safe. Perhaps we should remove all trees. Very dangerous things trees. Children climb them and fall out of their branches. They brake bones and have to go to the ER. Please remove them.|
All waterways should be drained as children tend to drown in them. majorly dangerous. No swimming pools and baths need to be removed from all houses.
If all roads cant be fenced then we need to ban cars and just walk everywhere. A bit of a struggle but we will just have to suck it up. Kids run out on roads and get hit by cars. Perhaps we could use cars but only during certain hours when children will be banned from being outside.

You can’t bubble wrap kids, I think they should stay!

This is crazy! Some of my favourite playground memories were on the monkey bars

I fell off as a kid and knocked my head. And yet her I am.. everything within reason!

I have personally seen a student break her arm (she was a prep) by falling from the monkey bars. But when she came back to school all she wanted to do was get back up there. Kids need to climb things and explore their limits although I do worry about it happening to my kid as he loves climbing.

No – kids have to learn to take risks so they know where their limits are! You don’t need monkey bars to break something – just running and falling over will break a wrist. And a broken wrist doesn’t set you up for a bad life. I brake my wrist at age 10 and 65 years later can still do most of what others my age can do if not more. For heavens sake, let children grow up an learn what fun is and what they can and can’t do within their own limitations.

Allowing children to take risks is part of healthy brain development. There should be supervision but I don’t believe they should be removed all together!

I think they are lots of fun

Don’t at all believe in banning monkey bars.
I’m actually a huge fan of parks & playgrounds becoming more adventurous & encouraging more movement, creativity, risk taking & challenges for kids. So many play spaces have been made overly safe – and kids are losing vital skills of risk taking, assessing, trying and testing limits. Of course any activity could result in injury – but I’d rather my kids be active & having fun & developing and ‘may’ have an accident – than not playing at all or in sanitised too safe parks, that are often boring for them anyway.

Seriously, monkey bars have always been and still are one of the most popular pieces of playground equipment. Banning them seems like OVERKILL.
What… it’s impossible to fall from those spider web things??
What will they ban next??
Let’s see. Tan bark can poke you in the foot… better ban it. Sand can get in your eyes… better ban it.
Maybe they should concentrate on providing appropriate shade in council parks to promote sun smart.

My mum broke her arm on monkey bars back in the 1940s. It was pretty common for a kid to break an arm mucking about in trees, on bikes or even on monkey bars! Kids will always hurt themselves because their bodies are growing and they are still learning coordination of their limbs. Please let’s keep parks interesting and fun – our current kids are going to end up like the adults in WALL-E at this rate.

Agree, it’s unsupervised, incorrect use. Our parents spent time with ya and showed us, if not played with us too.
Check the records from60-25 years ago for hospitals, bet their were hardly any injuries.
Kids hurt themselves because they sit on the couch and rarely go out to play so haven’t learnt how to roll, tumblr, take a fall. Too much cotton wool.
Ps: Two time hospital visit mum and it wasn’t a monkey bar incident.

Perhaps parents could take their kids to parks more often and teach them to use the monkey bars correctly instead. That way they recognise the signs of their hands about to skip and can learn to jump down safely.

Really people need to remember a parent is there to guide their kids through life, if a kid cant use monkey bars safely then the parent should teach the kid not to use them, not take away the fun fr kids who can.

If we continue to wrap out kids in cotton wool how are they going to survive in the real world
The nanny state has to stop

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  • • Mum2archer replied
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  Totally agree. You could hurt yourself on almost anything, but you can’t just ban it all! That’s not a great solution :/

Personally – NO. They’re great for building upper body strength and I know both my kids love them. Accidents happen and kids will continue to break bones and injure themselves no matter what we take away. Growing up I didn’t know anyone that broke a bone from falling of the monkey bars. As an adult I know 2 kids who have but surely with a growing population statistics like this are going to grow too

“Monkey bars were ok when I was a kid 60 years ago, but they’re not an appropriate form of play equipment” – um why? They are brilliant for upper body strength, coordination and heck they are just plain fun to play on. I’m tired of the fun police, I want them off this planet

Soon there will be nothing left to play with cause they will have the “fun police” remove everything

There is more chance of them being hurt if they are unsupervised. The flying fox is more dangerous than the monkey bars. Let kids be kids and not wrap them in cotton wool.

my daughter fell of a little wall because she slipped -she broke her arm at school. Maybe we should just make everything flat and boring so all the kids will want to do is sit in a classroom and learn!

Kids have accidents because they are learning and finding their boundary’s the more we wrap them in cotton wool the harder it will be for them to live in the real world!

Things are going too far these days, let kids be kids, get them outside, let them play on the equipment at the park. Seriously, they can get hurt doing anything, anytime, anyplace. Gotta stop wrapping them up in cotton-wool.