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

Between organized sports, activities and hovering parents, kids don't have the time — or skills — to initiate free play. That's a problem.

Killingly — At Goodyear Early Childhood Center, Principal Sally Sherman advises families against sending their preschoolers to class in their best clothes. “I just tell people, ‘Your kids are going to ...

"Act One, we lose the play-based childhood. We stop letting kids run around outside. We're too afraid they'll get abducted. ... We get gradual loss of play from the '90s through the early 2010s. ...

Well-loved for over a century, Raggedy Ann and Andy are timeless cloth dolls that capture the innocence of childhood. With their soft bodies, red yarn hair and stitched hearts that say "I Love You," ...

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands. In wartime Gaza, kids fly kites made from discarded parachutes. And in Ukraine, youngsters tussle in make-believe war, ...

A Telethon-funded program has seen five-year-old Kaliyah McGaw go from non-verbal to happily chatting to everyone at school.