Our kids love to play outside, and we love to shoo them out there pretty much all summer. Our gates are padlocked and we live in a safe neighbourhood, but if I’m inside I still leave the patio door open and run out as soon as I hear 30 seconds of quiet. They have given me good reason to be paranoid!

Right now they have a preschooler sized mini-playground and a mini-ish Dora trampoline that they’ve almost outgrown. We spent about $300-400 on each of those, and I’m not real keen on spending $1000 each on a new playground and trampoline. We’ve also been looking at a swing set as an option. Hmmmmm. So much to thing about!

Do you have play equipment in your back yard? What’s your opinion?