I Pit Fisher-Price For Uglifying The World

[Ashes_Ashes]

@Mr2001

The human vision system basically has four primary colors: red, green, blue, and yellow.

Your eye only has three kinds of cones, to sense red, green, and blue light, but they’re combined and contrasted in such a way that you experience two dimensions of color: red<->green and blue<->yellow (yellow being equal parts red and green). That is, any color is experienced in terms of whether it’s closer to red or green and whether it’s closer to blue or yellow.

Kids don’t know about color theory, or why we use the primary colors cyan+magenta+yellow with ink and red+green+blue with light, but they do know what their eyes are telling them.

Finally an explanation! The art teacher in me still protests that green is included. I have to restrain myself from going up to the play sets and marking off points for including green in with the primary colors. You get the funniest looks from the neighbors when you put check marks on their teeter totter.

[MrDibble]

Has anyone ever asked a kid what they’d prefer? And no, your nostalgia for the deathtraps of your youth is not a cite, I feel the same way, and we still have those 20ft tall metal thingummies set in asphalt round these parts.

I just know that my little one likes bright colours despite my attempts to engrain my finer Gothic sensibilities into her. Sigh

[Gala_Matrix_Fire]

It still completely fails to explain why anyone thinks that all kids’ products need to be in primary colors. Are they invisible to the kids otherwise? No. Will it hurt little Junior’s self-esteem if he has to say, “I want to play on the swing that is like red but not quite”?

[Derleth]

I still think you took offense completely and utterly without rational provocation, Sierra, and I would honestly enjoy knowing why you apparently see the world in those terms.

If you want to end this hijack completely, however, that would be fine with me, too.

[Leaper]

@ENugent

This article argues that the new “safe” playgrounds aren’t even safer, because kids just find more extreme ways to use them.

That assumes that the impetus behind the “safer” playgrounds is 100% concern for safety for kids, and not even a little bit fear of lawsuits, and the idea that the “safe” playgrounds will make it harder for trigger-happy parents to win lawsuits.