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 ...

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 ...

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

Many parents realize that educational toys are an important part of aiding a child's development, but many of the collect dust at the bottom of a toy chest. The trick to picking educational toys kids ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playtime isn’t just all fun and games. Kids learn important developmental and social skills through playing with others and by themselves. Associative play is one of the six stages of play — a ...

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 ...

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 ...