Where to Play Outdoor (for free) Around Jakarta?

Playing outdoor as much as we can becomes the main agenda during this holiday.

1. Taman Puring

Once in a while, try to bring this little girl (and of course, her mother) out of her (our) bubble.

Going by public transportation, waiting for the bus under the sun, riding on angkot with other people, dealing with this unfriendly-for-pedestrian city on her scooter (to be fair, it’s improving, a lot).

There was certain indescribable feeling watching her ‘playing’ with the kids in the public park.
It was totally different with those she had in paid-playground.

Pity for a rare chance to enjoy this kind of surroundings and environment during her childhood, in this city.

Guilty for bare minimum ability to provide free play with strangers, with less supervision and close to zero instruction. Something that I really miss about the time spent in other country.

Although I would elaborate more, yet couldn’t mix and match the right words to explain it in a simple way.

But then, since when raising a kid (particularly, in this country) could be described as simple?😏

The smirk might be the simplest explanation that I could provide for now.

2. Taman Lapangan Banteng

Consulted online maps several times and it only showed the usual route and modes to go to this park from our place,which I didn’t really approve (Like kamp melayu).

After some thinking and searching, found that we could reach this place by coming through another more pleasant route,from the opposite way.

It only took one short bus riding from home’s nearest bus stop then changed to another 20 minutes one.No traffic jam,few traffic lights, and better view outside the window.

The mathematician Carl Jacobi was known for his ability to solve problems by following a strategy of man muss immer umkehren which is loosely translated,
“invert,always invert”.

It’s one of my strategies whenever dealing with my many requirements yet limited resources (money, time, energy) to get many things in life as I once wrote longer here.

Through inversion I managed to find ways that allowed us to go to many places.

You tend to be more creative when everything is limited.

How to get here on time by the schedule in spite the distance?
Not by leaving early and neglecting previous tasks, but instead, finding faster route.

How to raise an independent kid?
Not by providing more, but helping less.

(Most) schools don’t teach such important thing called inversion, they even rarely teach proper thinking. Isn’t only right and better that we should?