When TikToker @.jmara was volunteering at her daughter's school as a recess monitor, she somehow ended up with five extra kids in her class. Her daughter's teacher, Miss Woods, counted out 14 kids for ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -A new initiative at the Woodson YMCA is helping pair your generosity with kids who don’t have winter clothing. It’s called the Winter Recess Project. It’s a partnership between ...
The playground at the Ballantyne Bowl has slides, climbing ropes and lots of other playground equipment. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, 9-year-old Christian Glynn and his 4-year-old brother ...
Playworks is the leading nonprofit in Utah aiming to transform children's prosocial skills and physical and mental well-being by leveraging the power of play. Desi Arends, Executive Director at ...
A mom who wished to be left anonymous recently went to her daughter’s Maryland elementary school to ask why the children aren’t allowed to play tag, or even close their eyes, at recess. “We’d recently ...
On a late wintry afternoon recently, I was in my childhood neighborhood and I drove by my old elementary school — Meadow ...
No more free play: That’s the order at Bourke Street Public School at New South Wales, Australia. The reason? When children were organizing their own games of soccer and basketball, the games were ...
Dear Meghan: My fifth grader gets yelled at by other kids when he makes mistakes in sports played at recess (e.g. missing a soccer goal or fumbling a football). How should he respond? He is not ...
A proposal at the state Capitol would require Wisconsin schools to increase daily recess time for students in kindergarten ...
Everyone could play on that.” Said his mother: “All kids should be able to play at recess. They shouldn’t have to sit on the sidelines, watching kids play around them.” We couldn’t agree more. Most of ...
Tennessee lawmakers recently passed a law to provide more recess time for K-5 students. (Photo: Getty Images) As a former Metro Nashville Public School teacher, I know firsthand what it is like when ...