When’s the last time you heard someone say, "Go outside and play"? Source: Senjuti Kundu / Unsplash For many of us raised in the 20th century, this simple phrase was an open invitation to explore ...

If you thought kids weren't playing outside enough before the pandemic hit, then you may be alarmed to learn the problem is worse now than ever before. When schools, playgrounds, and parks closed a ...

New research has found that more than a third of children don't play outdoors after school and 1 in 5 don't during weekends, raising concerns about children's physical and mental health. Researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Getty Images Remember those good old days when you used to run outside every evening to play games with your friends ...

A common story in our collective memory is that kids used to run around neighborhoods unsupervised, and their moms would call them when it was time to come home. I don't know to what extent this is ...

Moms in low-income neighborhoods say physical and social barriers in their neighborhoods discourage them from allowing their children to play outside, according to a new study. The decline in outdoor ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — National Play Outside Day is a monthly event celebrated on the first Saturday of every month. For July, it will be Saturday, July 6. It’s a day that encourages people of all ages to ...

Physical activity is important for early childhood development. There’s a preconceived notion that children are highly active while in childcare when often, they are not. The good news is that when ...

Studies suggest that today’s kids get an average of four to seven minutes of unstructured time outside each day, while they spend seven to eight hours per day in front of screens. With a youth mental ...