April 4 Is "Take Your Parents to the Playground Day(TM);" Progressive Design Playgrounds Calls for a National Day for

VISTA, CA, Mar 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
Regular outdoor play makes children smarter, happier, healthier, creative
and more self-confident. Play is so essential to a child's health and
development it is their work. A child's job is to play. Progressive
Design Playgrounds (www.pdplay.com), leading designer and manufacturer of
environmentally friendly commercial playground equipment, natural
playgrounds, safety surfacing and recreation site furnishings, announced
today a national day for play to motivate children to get outdoors and
take their parents to their workplace: the play place in their community
where they become happy, healthy human beings. Saturday, April 4, 2009 is
Take Your Parents to the Playground Day.

Take Your Parents to the Playground Day coincides with Children & Nature
Awareness Month, an event established by the Children & Nature Network
(C&NN) to call attention to the importance of providing opportunities for
all children to experience frequent, regular play in natural outdoor
settings.

Children today are far less likely than past generations to spend time
playing outdoors. A growing body of evidence reveals frequent outdoor play
is critical to the development of children in every major way --
intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically. Earlier this year,
Progressive Design Playgrounds launched a line of natural playgrounds
called Outdoor Learning Environments in direct response to feedback from
childhood development experts about the necessity of reconnecting
children to nature and the outdoors. These natural playgrounds provide
more opportunities for children to play with and among natural elements
such as sand, water and living plants. Outdoor Learning Environments
bridge traditional playgrounds and nature, creating a pioneering and fun
way for children to fully reap the benefit of outdoor play. More
information about natural playgrounds can be found at
http://www.outdoorlearningenvironments.com

Take Your Parents to the Playground Day is a day for families to step away
from modern amusements and rediscover and reconnect with unstructured play
and the outdoors. "We believe the future of play is rooted in the past,"
said John Ogden, president of Progressive Design Playgrounds. "We created
this day for outdoor play to motivate children and their parents to get
outside for some old fashioned fun at the local playground, the park or
even in their backyard."

Progressive Design Playgrounds designs and manufactures state-of-the-art
and environmentally friendly commercial playground equipment, natural
playgrounds, safety surfacing and recreation site furnishings. Based in
Vista, California, Progressive Design Playgrounds' play structures and
natural playgrounds are available worldwide through an extensive dealer
network. For more information visit the company's website at
www.pdplay.com.

Contact:
Margaret Ryan
Progressive Design Playgrounds
415.437.0437
Email Contact

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