The Parallelism Philosophy

by Jane Tawel

They have taken all the see-saws away from the playgrounds. Those big old public see-saws, once found in many of our parks and playgrounds, have been relegated to history’s dust pile, in the cause of safety and fear of liability. Children’s safety is without a doubt, all well and good, but by ridding the world of teeter-totters, the proverbial “They” have robbed us of one of our earliest shared learning lessons in fairness, and absconded with one of the best animated metaphors for living a balanced life. The legendary Theys can continue to strip the playgrounds of…