Every year on June 29, International Mud Day celebrates something many modern childhoods have lost: unstructured, messy ...

If you thought kids weren't playing outside enough before the pandemic hit, then you may be alarmed to learn the problem is worse now than ever before. When schools, playgrounds, and parks closed a ...

When I was a kid, my parents constantly told me to go play outside. I lived in a town where kids knocked on each other’s doors to ask if their friends could “come out and play,” rode their bikes in ...

However, many parents find themselves competing with tablets, video games, streaming services, and smartphones for their kids ...

New research has found that more than a third of children don't play outdoors after school and 1 in 5 don't during weekends, raising concerns about children's physical and mental health. Researchers ...

New research published in Acta Paediatrica suggests that children who engage in outdoor play during their preschool years have a lower risk of developing obesity later in childhood. The study included ...

Physical activity is important for early childhood development. There’s a preconceived notion that children are highly active while in childcare when often, they are not. The good news is that when ...

Research shows that rural maternal fears aren't that different from urban fears. With children's outdoor play declining in many places across the United States and Canada, it's more important than ...