I was also struck by the phrase "better a broken bone than a broken spirit" (which Catherine noticed too). The play workers said they are constantly balancing the child's developmental level and danger; they are making sure not to inhibit risk-taking. They argue that risk-taking and hazard has been collapsed, such that sanitized spaces are seen as the only ones appropriate for maintaining children's "safety." This is a powerful and different perspective than what we usually see these days on playgrounds in the United States. I loved all of the mud and rainboots and how the playground was mutable: the children were encouraged to build, change the environment, break things, and explore. Playgrounds in the US are made to be unchanging through time, which I now see is a way of foreclosing a certain relationship that can spring up between child and environment.