My daughter and I walked into the crowded gymnasium greeted by the sight and sound of elementary-age girls running, laughing, ...

Start a holiday tradition of unstructured play. It helps kids' minds, bodies, dreams and aspirations. Here's how to do it.

Travel sports can be fulfilling and lead to a kid’s overall enjoyment and development. They can be springboard to high school and college athletics.

The study also looked into what parents want their kids to learn or discover while playing with their toys and dolls. The most important was that kids learn “how to socialize” (50%).

Suddenly, the modern approach to children’s play, in which parents shuttle their kids to playgrounds or other structured activities, seemed both needlessly extravagant and wholly insufficient.

Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children's freedom to roam has been diminishing for generations, but the pandemic ...

What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.

Associative play is when young children learn to interact with each other through play. Find out more about its benefits.

Parents want to share their passons with their children. Here are four role playing games that parents and kids can play together.

The decline of American playtime — and how to resurrect it The world can be terrifying. But we should still give kids the freedom to explore it.