The Consequences of Play Deprivation Articles in This Issue Safety Playground Rules: Have We Gone too Far? As a playground advocate, I spend a lot of time working with playground owners. On a daily basis, I am in contact with people who purchase and maintain… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard Construction Respect Plastic in Structures What would a modern playground be without the invention of plastic? I would challenge anyone to find a commercial playground that isn’t fabricated, in part,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard Parks Rebuilding Wildcat Park The original Wildcat Park was built by volunteers in 1989 at Wilson Elementary School, where the elaborate wooden structure did double duty as a playground for… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine Shade Structures The Sun's Out It’s the heat of the summer now, and hopefully, you’ve spent a little time thinking about sun protection as you send children out to play. Even on those… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine Health The Consequences of Play Deprivation During the late twentieth century, children began to lose their historic rights and opportunities for free, outdoor play, and in the span of a few decades, the… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Joe Frost Inspection CPSI Code of Professional Conduct When you take the National Recreation and Park Association's Certified Playground Safety Inspector course you are asked to agree to the CPSI Code of… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Kenneth Kutska
Safety Playground Rules: Have We Gone too Far? As a playground advocate, I spend a lot of time working with playground owners. On a daily basis, I am in contact with people who purchase and maintain… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard
Construction Respect Plastic in Structures What would a modern playground be without the invention of plastic? I would challenge anyone to find a commercial playground that isn’t fabricated, in part,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Curtis Stoddard
Parks Rebuilding Wildcat Park The original Wildcat Park was built by volunteers in 1989 at Wilson Elementary School, where the elaborate wooden structure did double duty as a playground for… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine
Shade Structures The Sun's Out It’s the heat of the summer now, and hopefully, you’ve spent a little time thinking about sun protection as you send children out to play. Even on those… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine
Health The Consequences of Play Deprivation During the late twentieth century, children began to lose their historic rights and opportunities for free, outdoor play, and in the span of a few decades, the… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Joe Frost
Inspection CPSI Code of Professional Conduct When you take the National Recreation and Park Association's Certified Playground Safety Inspector course you are asked to agree to the CPSI Code of… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Kenneth Kutska
