The first time Vanessa Elias heard the term “play deficit disorder,” something clicked. She’d already noticed how her kids’ overpacked schedules took a toll and how the children in her Connecticut ...

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The new national poll on children’s health from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital finds three in five parents say their child ...

"Play isn’t just a frivolous pastime for children. It’s a powerful, even essential, tool for healing," writes Cas Holman.

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When was the last time you played? Cas Holman, author of the book "Playful," shares how play enriches adult life.

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

As a result, child actors never really grow up, or, more precisely, having grown up once, early, like a forced flower, they ...