The Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 2023 report, commissioned by NHS England, found 20.3 per cent of ...

Inclusive play transforms toys into access points for learning, confidence, and connection—at every age and ability level.

In 2014, police killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he played with a toy gun at a Cleveland recreation center. Ma’Khia Bryant was 16 when she was killed by police, also in Ohio. In Orlando, six-year-old ...

Play can help children become fluent in the language of the nervous system, learning what their bodies and brains need in ...

Your kids might be spending less time playing on an average day than you spend scrolling your smartphone. But Lego wants that to change. Today, the company is launching Play is Your New Superpower, a ...

A plan to improve play areas and keep children safe in Jersey has been launched. The island's government said the plan aimed ...

SEATTLE — On a bright October morning, two dozen 4- and 5-year-olds were scattered around a classroom at Impact Salish Sea Elementary in south Seattle, enthralled by plastic food, dolls, blocks and ...

Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

If you can recall, what types of play did you engage in when you were a child? Were they typical “boy” or “girl” styles of play, or non-gender-conforming? If you’re currently the parent of a young ...

Kids whoosh down 11 slides, play in a massive ball pit and climb through a maze of padded obstacles. A little girl sits at a ...

In playful fighting you can't treat everyone the same. Source: Max Pixel Public Domain I am a long-time admirer of Marc Bekoff and his research on play among canids (wolves, coyotes, dogs and the like ...