Every Houston parent faces a tragic moment in their lives when their child turns three. That's when the person at the Children's Museum Houston's Tot Spot gate turns away a kid because the indoor ...

Lafayette Elementary School has a newly renovated playground, access to a nearby park and athletic field, and roughly 900 energetic young students. So why have kids been cooped up inside during recess ...

LENOX — Morris Elementary School is doubling down on its commitment to recess as a vital highlight of the day — and an opportunity for students to develop their social skills. With that goal in mind, ...

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 ...

Most grade school students are likely to claim recess as their favorite period of the day; however, in many cases recess still can be sedentary with students not engaging in enough physical activity.

Several parents say Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) removed unsafe playground equipment from an elementary school months ago and have been slow to replace it, leaving students with little to ...

It's not always easy to get kids to play nice. It's also not cheap. Playworks, a national non-profit that dispatches recess coaches to mostly inner-city schools, says its job is to "put the play back ...

She said the school hasn’t had a playground since April. “That leads to maybe more behavioral challenges in the classroom when they can’t get their wiggles out,” she said. “My son comes back and says ...