I compose myself. The video ends. The shadow play begins (my son is in this one). There is a sweet rustling of kids taking ...

National Geographic has teamed up with three partners to create new opportunities for children to play and to highlight the decline in play opportunities. Here’s how you and your kids can take ...

Understand what's behind your child's play and help them learn by observing their patterns of behaviour or 'schemas' Does your child love to fill handbags, tins or pots with tiny things they have ...

It turns out play with an element of risk may be exactly what today’s kids are missing Brittany Toole When you think back to your favourite childhood play experiences, chances are they took ...

Play is used to understand what is on a child’s mind because play is children’s natural medium of expression. While play therapy, like all therapy, is conducted by way of appointment, few ...

Did you know that as well as learning about nature, children who play outside develop better language skills, are fitter, and have fewer behavioural problems? Research shows that children use five ...

One of the most important types of creative activity for children is creative play. Creative play is expressed when children use familiar materials in new or unusual ways, and when children engage ...

In preschool classrooms, kids move in patterns resembling those of molecules in water vapour, physicists have discovered 1. Yi Zhang at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida ...

Millions of children have no access to education, work long hours under hazardous conditions, or have their safety and futures threatened by armed conflict. They suffer targeted attacks on their ...

Studies in the US, UK, and Europe have found a decrease in children’s outdoor play in recent decades, along with an increase in screen time. It’s true that smartphones and tablets have ...

Anthropologists at Dartmouth College, studying the fossil record of primates and early humans, along with the effects of play on child development, found that risk-taking play boosts confidence ...