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...

Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...

The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...

“Fidget spinners are a capitalist plot to turn Russian children into zombies,” Vladimir Putin fears, according to Newsweek. The...

Summer camp isn’t just for swimming and crafts, writes Michael Alison Chandler in the Washington Post. Specialty camps — debate,...

Summer is the “time to dig in the sand, gulp from the hose, play at the park, and leap with joy … unless you’re a kid,” wrote Lenore...

The University of Cambridge has appointed the world’s first Lego professor of play, writes Tom Bennett in The Guardian.  Young children...

Preschools where teachers teach about phonics, numbers and shapes  produce cognitive gains for students — especially blacks — concludes a...