The New SeeSaw

Do you remember the old wooden seesaws?  They were fantastic! We used to "bump" each other so that we would go bouncing almost off the thing when we reached the top. It was great fun! That is if you didn't smack your face on the plank (which I did, and had a swollen cheek for a week. But hey it is all part of being a kid). Apparently some people declared them dangerous, and they have all been taken down. I don't know what would make them think that a lever built out of a wooden plank with wire handles featuring a huge metal bar for a fulcrum would be dangerous? I mean there is such a thing as overprotective.  Alas, when I was a child they dismantled our seesaw at school and for years we were left to play with the metal fulcrum part (is that not dangerous?).  Then years after I left they invested in a new playground that lacks, you guessed it, a seesaw. I often wondered how children were supposed to learn about levers if they didn't have one of these, but now redemption for the seesaw has come!! 

This new seesaw is not dangerous. Not in the least (if it was they wouldn't have built it).  The metal is coated with rubber and the pivoting points are only pinching if you sit directly on them with shorts. Not to mention if you are just the right height to smack yourself on the end of one.  Really, like I said, not dangerous at all. Actually, they are great and I like them. They are multiple levers in one and the kids can sit on it like a bench and it moves depending on the amount of weight in each spot. My boys love this thing! You can find one of these new fantastic inventions in Augusta at the playground by Shaw's.  So go on down and have some fun, but please don't complain about getting pinched; we don't want to lose this new seesaw as well.