The research found 34% of children did not play outdoors on school days, while 20% stayed indoors on weekends. It also found ...

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

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

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

When my kids tumble into the car after an afternoon spent outside with muddy knees, tangled hair and stories about the worms they found or the forts they built, they are lit up. They are calm. They ...

Surveys consistently show that kids want to play outside and want some independence. They crave the chance to meet up with friends in person, without adults hovering or directing every move. Yet, ...

When I was a kid, my parents constantly told me to go play outside. I lived in a town where kids knocked on each other’s doors to ask if their friends could “come out and play,” rode their bikes in ...

Plus, there's always youth sports and younger children going to daycare. For Dr. Jess Weisz, a pediatrician at Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C., keeping kids safe in the heat comes down ...

It’s spring — a great time for children to play outside, walk to the store or even climb a tree. And three states — Florida, Georgia, and Missouri — have just passed legislation declaring it is not ...