Child's play powers learning, focus, confidence, and calm. Here’s how to protect it at home and advocate for it at ...

Parents, it’s time to chill. A pediatric nurse practitioner is going viral for telling moms and dads to pump the brakes on ballet, soccer, piano and Kumon — because their kids are heading toward total ...

When a Florida dad noticed the "Kids-at-Play" sign he put up outside the family home had been flattened, he turned to his Ring security camera for answers. Steve, who asked that his real name be ...

“Play is fundamentally important for learning 21st century skills, such as problem solving, collaboration, and creativity.”– American Academy of Pediatrics. Many children no longer play, and this is ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The results were breathtaking. The dozens of kids who showed up had no ...

Every Friday, Davana Jackson, a teacher at Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID), which helps deaf or hard-of-hearing kids from ages 0 to 5 overcome the barriers that deafness ...