Monkey Bars

[BluebellRN]

Are the bane of my existence. In the past couple weeks I've had two broken arms from monkey bar falls. With just a day and half between me and spring break, if another kid falls, I might go tear the thing down myself!

On the positive, the ER DR commented to mom that it was smart of whoever splinted the kid's arm with a magazine. Kid told the doc it was the school nurse. ?

[kidzcare]

On 3/27/2019 at 11:54 AM, SaltineQueen said:

Do you guys know about GaGa ball? I'm ready to rip that pit out. SO many mangled, meaty knuckles from that game.

We had never heard of this game in Illinois. The kids at our summer camp (in Pennsylvania) play it and it's ripped knuckles left and right!

On 3/28/2019 at 8:01 AM, OldDude said:

When I first came on with school nursing there was an old fashioned steel merry-go-round on the playground. Those kids would load that thing up and get it spinning at the speed of sound and see who could hang on the longest as it spit kids out who gave up their grip. I worried and fretted over that thing until I finally got it removed after a couple years but when I think back about it...I don't recall one serious injury from the "wheel of torture." ?

I loved going on that as a kid! There was one at a playground not far from where we used to live and I would bring my kids there and try to get them up to the speed of sound!