Last month, a mother in Chicago sparked a firestorm on X (formerly Twitter) when she asked city officials to create indoor playgrounds at public libraries.
“My child needs somewhere to burn off energy without getting frostbite and all the private indoor trampoline parks and such are SO expensive,” she wrote.
Parents from all over echoed her plea. But most people said having noisy kids in a library was the worst idea they had ever heard.
As one person put it, “I can’t believe how noisy libraries are these days. Drives me nuts! Can’t even imagine how much worse it would be with a playground in it!”
Reading the responses, I had to wonder: What about churches and other places of worship? Many have gyms or fellowship halls that sit mostly empty during the week. What if they offered them indoor play spaces, especially in winter?
A bit of research showed there are churches in Canada doing just that.
Read my column in the Free Press.
Photo above: The
playground at Creekside Church in Waterloo, Ont.
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