This mom’s not monkeying around — and she sure isn’t swinging on the monkey bars, either. Amanda, a mom of three who goes by ...

Pop the bubble wrap and let kids play outdoors, pediatricians say Modern ... Conner broke his arm after falling off monkey bars at a city park last year. (Submitted by Melanie Quilty) Jungle ...

In recent decades, anthropologists have shown that play-climbing is a universal ... to fuel a debate about children’s health, in part because monkey bars result in more injuries than any other ...

Sponsor Message Sandseter says the jungle gym, and its sibling the monkey bars, offer a lot of challenging and also risky play, which is a good thing. She says it helps kids' physical development ...

OZUG: She looks at how kids use play structures and actually seek out a certain degree of risk. SANDSETER: I would think of monkey bars, where you can hang upside down, jump from high places ...

Source: Public Domain Image This is a story about the origin of “monkey bars,” the playground ... more clearly displayed in children,” the play apparatus that he designed would be “so ...

"Generally, researchers have found that risky play helps children build resilience and confidence, skills that resonate throughout life," she says. "We focus on jungle gyms and monkey bars as an ...