Originally Posted by youretooloud:
No..I'm of the "just try, if you fall, try again" mentality.
Obviously within reason. But, I'm all for kids climbing higher and longer until they can do it the way they want.
In the 60s, we had playgrounds with a steep, wide, slide, with no ladder... you just had to keep trying to get up it by yourself. The only way to get up it was to keep practicing. 45 years later, I can still remember the pride I felt when I finally got up there by myself. My brother had been doing it forever, but it took me at least a year of trying.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7776581...n/photostream/ <--doesn't that look hard? Can you imagine your three year olds trying to do this?
It's even called an "earn a slide".
That's cool! I want one! It looks safer than the narrow, low-sided things we climbed on...you can't really fall off the edge of it. In fact, I see one of those in the picture behind the cool one.