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Visitor to the playground at Valberparken, a green expanse in Copenhagen, is in for three surprises.
The first is that the sprawling public children's park is built on what was once a rubbish tip for the Danish capital.
The second is the free coffee on offer for harried parents.
But perhaps the most unexpected is the eagerness of the playground staff to hand out knives to children,
or axes if they prefer, or even, for tots bored with mere weaponry, some fire-starting equipment.
Off you go, kids, and do be careful.
Oh, and parents, please keep an eye on them.
Sprogs of an age that in most countries would barely be allowed onto a swing unattended scamper away to whittle sticks
and soon imagine themselves carving their own magic wand or the oar of a Viking longship.
The knife-dispensing strategy may appear to some as an oversight
that keeps the local hospital bustling with injured kids in summer.
On the contrary.
Injecting a dose of risk into children's free-ranging fun is a feature, not a bug.
The nature-based playground offers a litany of ways for children to get bruised, bumped, scratched and dirty.
There are trees to climb, brambly branches to rearrange, tricycles to ride, often into each other,