Time to play one of America's favorite sports: Basketball! Kids try their hand at dunking and playing but aren't pros just yet!

Today, with technology everywhere, kids can play games on their gadgets and stay at home. It is common to see a toddler or ...

The behaviors that Gerdes' bill seeks to stigmatize are — as any person who has ever met a child or been a child could tell you — entirely normal forms of play. Kids love animals! The love to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Video games can be fun, but should your toddler be playing them? In a world where screens are everywhere, many parents wonder when it’s okay to let their kids start playing video games.

"Cult of Play," explores how Mumbai's play culture has shifted from communal spaces to gated communities, impacting children's play experiences. MUMBAI: “When I was a child, we would play in the ...

A “no ball games” culture and increasing smartphone use mean play is being “squeezed out” of children’s lives, new research has found. A report by the Raising the Nation Play Commission ...

Experts are warning about the impacts of children spending less time playing and less time outdoors as the government is being urged to restore playtime in school. An interim report by the Raising the ...

She joined Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal to talk about how life changed when kids stopped playing in the streets. An edited transcript of their conversation follows. Kai Ryssdal: Tell me about ...

As any parent of a young child can tell you, “technology has changed the way kids play,” Ruslan Slutsky, an education professor at the University of Toledo who studies play, told me.

“She was totally blissed out.” Suddenly, the modern approach to children’s play, in which parents shuttle their kids to playgrounds or other structured activities, seemed both needlessly ...

Then I actually had kids. It didn’t take long to realize how different motherhood was from what I imagined, and how bored out of my skull I would be by imaginary play. Before having kids ...