Trips to the park are still a treasured part of childhood, but today’s playgrounds have changed a lot since you were a kid. Safety concerns have made a lot of old favorites, from merry-go-rounds to ...

People above a certain age may remember getting burned by a hot metal slide as a kid during a summer in the 1980s. Since then, for safety and economic reasons, bare metal has been replaced with ...

Playgrounds in the 70s were not for the faint-hearted. There were metal slides capable of causing third-degree burns, monkey bars from which you dangled high above the concrete and, who could forget, ...

Federal guidelines now require design changes, making seesaws increasingly rare, as they’re deemed less safe for younger ...