We go to the park regularly and the girls love to climb all over the playground–especially the slides. While we insist on accompanying them when they go down the tall slides, we let them go down the relatively short ones by themselves. We noticed that they go down the slides differently though.
Miranda sits very upright, and comes to a nice stop at the end of the slide.
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Eleanor goes down the slide on her back, and flies right off the end. Though we didn’t catch the very end of her ride in this video, Eleanor was fine.
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Miranda’s technique seems the safer of the two.