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Risk management is an important life skill, and risk aversion in playgrounds is unhelpful in the long term.

Experts studying child development such as Tim Gill have written about the over-protective bias in provision for children, particularly with playgrounds.

Instead of a constructed playground, allowing children to play in a natural environment such as open land or a park is sometimes recommended ; children gain a better sense of balance playing on uneven ground, and learn to interpret the complexity and signals of nature more effectively.