Sunday, March 22, 2009

playground equipment

Where: McDonald's
Time: 7:00-8:00

I observed at the play area in McDonalds. There were only about 4-5 children there. When I first came they were running around through the tunnels. Two kids were in a plastic rocket ship, shaking back and forth loudly.
A boy was going down all the slides, one by one. The other kids eventually joined him and they went down the slides together, piling up at the bottom. Eventually, three of the children went to eat with their parents. The youngest boy kept getting distracted however, and would randomly run through one of the tunnels. The kids were shouting back and forth to each other a lot.
While they were eating there was only one little girl playing on the equipment. She was playing by herself while her dad talked on the phone. She climbed through the tunnels and went down the slides a few times.
Eventually the other children all left and it was just her. She asked her dad if they could leave, as well, but he told her to play more. After this, she started talking out loud and pretending that she had other people to play with. She seemed rather bored, but her dad didn't want to leave yet. When I left, she was still there, going down the slides.

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