Although children sometimes behave like extra-terrestrials, the roadsign scientist tries for more ordinary explanations.

The picture shows two children going home after a day at school. They probably have an over-enthousiastic teacher. (Such people exist, not frequently enough, but it happens.) Their heads - close to exploding - show exactly how I felt after a dayload of interesting facts I now sometimes wish I should have listened to.

The sign shows more evidence of a system focussed too much on memory-fatting. Look at the arms: how thin they are, badly in need of exercise. I tell you, this children spend too much time at their desk.

Find some related signs in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador.

What I can't understand is why a country with such nice warnings for a pedestrian crossing, can't apply the same high standards for its children's crossing signs. Our latest find doesn't give any reason to hope for an improvement. Look at the top row.
The signs there feature the typical U.S. shape, but at least they carry a localised drawing. Which can't be said about the sign on the road to Volcan Poas: it's button-head North-American import. (The poor pedestrian most probably will soon be chopped down because he shows too much face.)

Countries worldwide have different views about the maximum speed giving children a reasonable change to escape. Our page about Children's crossings in Australia gives a short list.

But here, in Costa Rica, a new toy is introduced. The boy is playing with a hoop, a hula hoop. Could it be that this sign was manufactured at the end of the 1950s when the hoop was immensely popular?
Notice that he's running for his ball and at the same time controling his hoop. Now, that is quite something!