Dear editor:

I have noticed the repeated requests for feedback about NOTL’s playgrounds. As someone on the other side of 70, I haven’t responded because it doesn’t apply to me. But it should.

Why is it that children get to play while we adults — sometimes, maybe — work out?

When I was a child living for two years in France, our family used to travel to a lovely park that had play structures for children and adults.

There were small swings and large, teeter-totters and a giant piece that seated up to three large people on each end that swung horizontally. The entire family had a whale of a time. And yes, there were folks with silver hair there.

Even now, when we cross the pond, we often find in other countries, along paths and beaches, equipment painted in joyous colours that invite fun. Some are serious pieces of exercise equipment.

Some perhaps increase flexibility, but exist mostly to relish movement, like the one that has two platforms for feet and a bar to hold onto while we swish our legs back and forth.

In Canada, children get play structures, while we get benches. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Kathy Belicki
NOTL