Playground Belonging Reflection
A longer reflection about one playground visit.
Please complete this after your visit, not while actively supervising play.
Short answers are welcome. You can write a few words, a sentence, or more if you want.
Estimated time: 7-10 minutes
The Playground Belonging Project is a caregiver-led project created by Melody Smale, a parent/caregiver and landscape architect, with support from a Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation grant.
This reflection helps build caregiver-informed playground resources - including “know before you go” playground pages that share what other caregivers have found helpful, hard, welcoming, or useful before visiting.
This reflection is for adult caregivers or support people who visited a playground with a child, youth, or another person.
It is especially for families and groups where someone has a disability, difference, sensory need, or other support need. This could include:
you, as the caregiver or support person
more than one person in your group
You do not need to explain or prove anything. Please share only what feels useful and comfortable.
This reflection is about one playground visit.
Playground visits can feel different depending on the day, weather, crowding, energy, support needs, or what your group needed that day. You are welcome to complete another reflection after a different visit to the same playground.
How your reflection may help
Your reflection may be reviewed, summarized, and grouped with other caregiver reflections to help create public playground information pages.
These pages will share general patterns, not individual stories. For example, they might say caregivers often mentioned shade, washrooms, quieter edges, difficult transitions, or places where children could play in their own way.
Direct quotes or individual stories will not be shared publicly.
This reflection does not ask for your name or contact information.
Please do not include names, email addresses, phone numbers, child names, exact diagnoses, photos, exact visit dates or times, or other details that could identify you, your child, another person, or another family.
After you submit, your reflection will not be linked to your name or contact information. This helps protect privacy, but it also means I may not be able to find and remove a specific response later.
Responses are collected through an online form platform and may be exported to private project files for review and summary.
This is not a formal academic research study.
If this project becomes formal research in the future, that would have its own ethics review and consent process. Filling out this reflection does not mean you are agreeing to take part in future research.
A note about safety or maintenance concerns
This form is not monitored for safety, maintenance, or accessibility concerns.
If something needs attention, please contact the municipality, park operator, or emergency services directly.
Questions about this project can be sent to:
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