Movement is crucial for children's brain development ... While they’re running around “playing pretend,” their brains are practicing role-playing and empathy, conflict resolution, flexible ...

As kindergarten becomes more academically intense, some schools in Wichita are incorporating self-directed free play — known among educators as purposeful play — into the daily schedule as a way to ...

Kids always know more than we think they do. It’s a truth that Dr. Jody Thomas, a pediatric health psychologist, has lea ...

Chelsea Luker is a psychologist, author, and parent of two neurodivergent children. She lives on Bundjalung Country in ...

Screens off, imagination on — keep toddlers busy with fun, easy and creative play using stuff you already have at home.

Pretend City Children’s Museum is hosting its Kidstock Music and Arts Festival through this weekend and next. There are two ...

When climbing trees, riding a bike fast or exploring a woodland, children make their own decisions on which risks to take and ...

The illusion of kids effect is when all our kids are together and someone gets the impression they are a bunch of random kids ...

One way to address children's well-being is through letting them take part in outdoor risky play. When climbing trees, building dens, riding a bike fast, constructing rafts to float on water ...

Now, experts have warned that some children are spending so much time playing the game that they're developing 'Fortnite accents'. The Fortnite accent is typically high-pitched and fast-faced ...

MPs have called on the government to introduce a “national play strategy” in England to boost the amount of time that children spend playing outdoors, which has fallen steadily in recent decades.