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Kstrong ok 👌
I loved climbing trees too fortunately I didn’t have any falls that resulted in broken bones just bruises and scrapes. I also remember that the play equipment at schools and parks in my childhood was made of steel so it would last longer and we had tan bark as our “cushion” if needed. I broke my nose on the parallel bars at the elementary school playground that was 2 blocks away from my parents house when I was with my grandfather and he was not known for being very good with messy situations but he did wonderfully that day. It was my own fault for sitting on only one bar and having nothing more to stabilize myself I couldn’t stop my momentum when I realized that I was slipping all I could do was hold onto the bar as my face made solid contact with the other bar and my grandfather (just a step or two away) taking a picture with his favorite camera, a Polaroid, had to watch it all happen. Fortunately he stopped the bleeding quickly enough that I didn’t get the usual vomiting from too much blood going down the back of my throat and unsettling my stomach. I must’ve been 4-5 yo and I still remember it vividly.
I think having not much of a “safety net” taught my generation or the kids in my neighborhood (at least) that we need to be careful and confident about what we were doing because the mechanisms for injury were numerous.
