'Left out' boy creates winning playground design

The design, created by 14-year-old Hayden Calvert, will influence the creation of 100 play areas across the UK each year, ...

Poll Reveals How Rarely Young American Children Play Outside

Co-director of the poll, Sarah Clark, M.P.H., told Newsweek that finding small pockets of time for play can make a big ...

National poll: 1 in 10 young children play outdoors as little as once a week

The physical and mental health benefits of outdoor play are well established, but one in 10 parents of preschoolers and ...

Poll finds 1 in 10 American kids rarely play outside

About 1 in 10 preschoolers and toddlers go outside to play once a week or less, a University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott ...
Opinion

Children should have a right to play in the streets, alleys, pavements and car parks of their neighborhoods

Through playing in these urban gray spaces, children enact their right to play and their right to the city. This play has the potential to reinforce their connection to their neighborhoods, their ...
Gizmodo

A Shocking Number of Kids Don’t Play Outside

For plenty of us grown-ups, the time spent running around our neighborhoods or hanging by the playground swings was a highlight of our childhood. Kids today often can’t say the same, though. New ...
WPXI

The anarchic playgrounds where putting kids at risk is the point

Flaming stone fire pits, wonky swings, lopsided wooden forts, stacks of hammers and saws, and even an abandoned automobile turned into a play den: Kolle 37 is not your usual kind of kids' recreation ...