Children today often have packed schedules filled with organized sports, music lessons, tutoring, and carefully planned activities. While those experiences certainly have value, they can leave ...

Unstructured play is a vital part of childhood that allows your child to explore and learn without strict rules or adult direction. It creates opportunities for imagination and discovery in a natural, ...

Every year on June 29, International Mud Day celebrates something many modern childhoods have lost: unstructured, messy outdoor play.

October was National Bullying Prevention Month, and in my decade of teaching in high-poverty public elementary schools, I’ve seen strategy after strategy and initiative after initiative implemented to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My kids and our neighbors' kids play outside every afternoon. Watching them engage in unstructured play reminds me of my childhood ...

Raising children is a quite an experiment in applied philosophy. Parents have theories and their children put them to the test. Of course, by the time the results are in, so many theories have come ...

In the previous edition of Goal Posts, I wrote about the absence of informal, unstructured play in today’s culture. There is certainly a place for organized sports in society, as coaches, camps, and ...

I write in response to the article, “Should Schools Lock Up Kids’ Cellphones?” As a teacher who sees firsthand the harmful impact of cellphones, I applaud the bipartisan committee who voted to ...

Unstructured free play addresses–head-on–making friends, learning empathy, learning emotional regulation, learning interpersonal skills, and it greatly empowers students by helping them find a healthy ...