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.

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 ...

If you ask preschoolers if raining is what a cloud “does” or if it’s “what a cloud was made for,” they’ll almost unanimously ...

Kate Middleton highlights the effects of screens on child development in a new essay, and stresses the importance of family ...

Lego sets for adults and kids are on sale at Amazon during October Prime Day 2025. The best Amazon deals on Legos include Lego flowers, scenes from ‘Star Wars,’ Lego ‘Harry Potter’ sets, Disney builds ...

I traveled all over the US and the world when my kids were young. Now all my kids are adults, and I'm not the one planning our travels anymore. I don't think I can plan a vacation as well as my kids ...

The symptom of a cultural illness is often also a cause of that same illness. For example, violence begets distrust, which begets violence, and poverty begets ill health, which begets poverty. And as ...