Great balls of fire

16-10-07
One of the perils an active toddler faces is injury within the home.
Since we are trying to ween her off telly, we now spend most of the
time running after her and stopping her from falling, bumping,
smashing, slipping etc against ordinary home objects such as
furniture, bins, tvs etc. She is not as bad as some stories you hear
of, mostly boys, leaping off settees and pulling heavy objects onto
themselves, but she's pretty, shall we say 'curious'.
So it comes as some relief that there is one place in Borehamwood
that is a sanctuary for ballistic toddlers everywhere - the B'Wood
leisure centre Playzone.
Here, over three storeys, are floors, stairs, climbing frames, balls etc
all covered in tough wearing foam. Youngsters can run around like a
demented loon with little danger of harm (although you still have to
supervise by following closely). Aimee of course went mental at all
the physical stimulus. She spent most of the time sprinting from one
floor to the other, jumping, skidding, sliding and bouncing off things.
If Carlsberg made toddler zones, this would be it.