Playground around our place

There are many many playgrounds around our area - Serangoon North.

We drive by this playground before entering the multi-storey carpark.
We pass by this playground to get to 7-11 and his previous childcare.
Colin is always on a look out for this playground and he never misses. HAHAH.
He shout "PLAYGROUND!!!" as he runs towards it...

Blk 504 Serangoon North Ave 4

This is a pretty basic playground with a 1 level slide, 1 swirl slide, fireman's bar, swirl steps. There's also monkey bars behind and a 'n' climbing frame. I always frown at the fact that playgrounds nowadays are lacking swings. It's mainly about climbing, hanging and sliding.

My parents dislike letting him play at this playground because the big kids are very rough and intolerant towards toddlers. They like to play a "catching" game whereby all the players will be on the platforms and the catcher will be on the ground, tossing ball violently to hit anyone on the platform to be the next catcher.

My poor boy will be the one hoping to join in the excitement and fun but.... he is simply too young, gentle and slow for the bigger kids. It's okay to exclude him, but  he can't even go up the platforms because the rest of the kids will be up there, plus the ball from catcher will be thrown anytime, which meant that either he'll be bumped off by bigger kids or get hit by the ball.

Colin can spend more than an hour here (after the big kids go home), walking up to the platforms and coming down the slides repeatedly. He will play with any toddler/dog/tricycle/ball that comes by too.