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Article: Giving teenagers their own corner of the playground.(Features)(Homefront)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Call it the invasion of the teenagers.
That sounds menacing, and for many parents and their youngsters that's exactly how it feels when teens converge on playgrounds intended for younger children.
One company has studied this troubling trend and developed a novel solution - playground equipment for older kids.
KOMPAN, a major international playground equipmentmaker headquartered in Denmark, claims its 10 Plus products provide "a special place for a difficult age," namely those between 10 and 15.
"When you analyze where teenagers are, they are almost always someplace where nobody really wants them to be," says Maj Stillinger-Beresford, ...