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I see a dark pattern in suburban France. Every house with kids has its trampoline, and often a play-frame and a pool too. Now, kids play with those a bit from t
by d3k 2mo ago
I see a dark pattern in suburban France. Every house with kids has its trampoline, and often a play-frame and a pool too. Now, kids play with those a bit from time to time, but they rarely go to a friend's house, because they have their own thing there.
So if there is a park, a pool or a trampoline in a park nearby, I would rather use them. I believe it is better for social and environmental reasons.
- inigyou 2mo agoIt's not just France. This is the standard pattern of suburbs, even if you don't have these things at your house.
- dsiegel2275 2mo agoI see the opposite pattern here (Pittsburgh, PA). The homes with trampolines that I have seen end up being a magnet for the neighborhood kids and become a social scene of sorts. When our children were younger, every day they'd end up playing on the trampoline with some different subset of the dozen or so other neighborhood children (who didn't own a trampoline). There was tons of laughter, some tears and conflict - and overall an amazing way for these children to spend time together as they grew up. Our kids have aged out of the trampoline now. But I was just driving through our neighborhood yesterday and I saw two other homes with trampolines, both filled with five or six kids, rolling around, playing, bouncing - exactly how the OP described and exactly what we saw in our own backyard.