This was great! I was a total playground buff when my kids were little, and I think we explored every playground within an hour radius. And even within my own city/state, there were huge parenting differences were displayed.
“I think the most uncomfortable takeaway from all of this is that so much of how we parent in public isn’t really a choice- it’s a performance of what we think good parenting looks like. And that image is handed to us almost entirely by the culture we’re in.”