Smart, Safe Ideas For Kids

Published: March 5, 2008, 11:16 am

To take a break from the election overload, here is an idea for a kid’s climbing toy that caught my eye over at Gizmodo. Anyone who allows their children to play on this should probably be visited by the department of child & family services. I'm a full-grown adult and I can see myself being gravely injured by this thing. I’m not against climbers. Studies actually show that they are great confidence builders in young girls and can help keep our kids from becoming fat asses like us, but this thing is slippery. Also, having 10,000 kids on it at the same time is only inviting chaos and dismemberment. It’s not all bad. At least they have a nice bed of hard sharp greyish-blue rocks they can fall onto if things don’t work out at the top.

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