Raising children is a quite an experiment in applied philosophy. Parents have theories and their children put them to the test. Of course, by the time the results are in, so many theories have come ...

October was National Bullying Prevention Month, and in my decade of teaching in high-poverty public elementary schools, I’ve seen strategy after strategy and initiative after initiative implemented to ...

New research synthesizing decades of developmental and psychological data suggests children of the 1970s, who enjoyed largely unsupervised and unstructured play, developed a stronger internal locus of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My kids and our neighbors' kids play outside every afternoon. Watching them engage in unstructured play reminds me of my childhood ...

In the previous edition of Goal Posts, I wrote about the absence of informal, unstructured play in today’s culture. There is certainly a place for organized sports in society, as coaches, camps, and ...

Unstructured play is a vital part of childhood that allows your child to explore and learn without strict rules or adult direction. It creates opportunities for imagination and discovery in a natural, ...

I write in response to the article, “Should Schools Lock Up Kids’ Cellphones?” As a teacher who sees firsthand the harmful impact of cellphones, I applaud the bipartisan committee who voted to ...

As Canada marks the United Nations International Day of Play this week, a global children’s charity is raising concerns about what it says is a decline in unstructured outdoor play and the impact it ...