Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children's ...

Play is often dismissed as just “fun”, but for young children, play is a serious — and essential — business. Defined as ...

Their entire purpose in life right now is to play, cry and attach to you, with the last being the most important. This does wane as children get older, but it would be developmentally ...

As parents, one of our deepest desires is to raise children who are not only successful but also kind, empathetic, and ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with research professor Peter Gray about the connection between the decline of children's mental health and the decline of independent play ... then you kind of develop ...

For example, highlighting how kind they are will ... confident about trying to play with other kids at school. Be on the lookout for your child assuming they are being excluded when that is ...

It will be available on PBS in the fall, and is being shown at film festivals and other events across the U.S. Throughout the film, you see the intricate and important work of early educators as they ...

Besides for the numerous benefits to both parents and children when one shows self- compassion, there is something much deeper at play ... with a legacy of being kind to themselves and being ...

including 'simple' things like being able to go to soft play centres like other children his age. Linda said: "We identified it was not fully accessible and children and parents had to leave when ...