Park counsellors

I remember park counsellors.  Now you have to pay for this privilege.  I hope that means that the staff is better educationally prepared in child psychology (through experience and schooling). and truly loves the kids.*

But that also means that some can't participate. During summers and I think it was weekends and after school they had the park rec room open and you could check out a ball, jumprope, etc. some days they had crafts. They had little pocket game tables. It was fun. I would spend hours at the park and my parents thought I was safe. I was safe, until the day they sent me home I guess.  Although I didn't feel threatened and even being a kid I knew what that felt like. My instincts, much like a dogs, usually told me so. Although to some extent I've lost this from not using it, of course.

Is it too much cost to have that kind of program, too much liability. Have cities mismanaged money to such a huge extent and no one notices (like happened in Bell, California). Have possible grants dried up to fund wars no one cares about with our countries children?  Who knows?

It was nice, it was good to be outside playing, healthy, I was so truly happy. I see kids now, my kids, a lot of other kids, and they seem to unhappy. Neuroticly so even and this technology epidemic may be to blame, but not getting outside. Not playing, not interacting without structure with other people, isn't teaching them life skills. The majority of the population learns with "hands on training". It's no different with life.

*Kids are hard. Especially a gaggle of them. Then make me from a bad neighborhood...where they are taugh to distrust all authority. Yikes. (Rich aren't any better though. They disregard authority out of snobbery.)