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I used to love the swings in our local park when I was young and a few weeks back I was reminded of how much fun they were when a friend installed a swing set into his garden for his little girl.

She and her little friend were having so much fun taking it in turns to push eachother on the swing, squealing with delight when they swung as high as they could. The simpler toys are often the ones that children find most appealing and swings definitely fall into that category.

They are, after all, enormously simple. There isn’t really any need for an expensive garden swingset, just a high enough branch in a tree, a couple of ropes and a piece of wood. And if you don’t have a garden you can even rig one up in a doorway.

Swings are a fun way to get children to engage in more active play. They don’t need to be shown what to do, they don’t need to read complex instructions and they don’t need batteries. Give your child a swing and you will hear nothing but laughter and the sound of their enjoyment.