Teenagers wouldn't be so anxious, depressed and fragile if they'd spent more time playing outside with friends -- without adult...

Rethink summer vacation, writes Rick Hess in an Education Week column. That doesn't mean extend the school year. The much-discussed...

Kindergarteners learn outdoors -- including time in the "magical forest" -- for most of the school day at a school in Quebec, reports...

The new Transition Me Elmo doll will introduce children "to the exciting new world of gender reassignment," reports Babylon Bee. "If...

Exercise and sports -- at least one hour three times a week -- are a natural anti-depressant for teenagers, according to an analysis of...

Snow days have not been canceled, despite the rise of remote learning, writes Nathan M. Sorber, a higher education professor at West...

For ambitious parents, toys are supposed to "cram learning into playtime," writes Alex Blasdel in The Guardian. "Is it time for a...

The first Saturday of each month is National Play Outside Day, writes Don Mathis. He remembers the exciting -- and dangerous --...

Playing -- especially child-directed play outside with friends -- is how kids learn, writes Jackie Mader on the Hechinger Report. Playing...

Boys are struggling in school around the world, not just in the United States, points out Kay Hymowitz in City Journal. Boys have lower...

My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...

Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...

Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...

Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...

Toddlers play more creatively if they’re given a few toys, according to a new study in Infant Behaviour and Development. Too many toys at...

Sara Zaske moved to Germany with a four-year-old daughter, then gave birth to a son. In Achtung Baby she praises “the German art of...

You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play

Parents value structured activities over free play, according to a Gallup survey, “despite research associating unstructured, child-led...

Banning cellphones during lunch time has forced students to interact face to face, says Rebecca Gogel, principal of Corona del Mar Middle...