From Barbie dolls to action figures, the range of toys available to kids is expansive. But when a kid picks up a play gun from the toy aisle, parents may pause to question whether or not plastic ...

Golinkoff and Han often remind parents and caregivers that “play is the work of childhood,” a phrase first coined by ...

Get your kid the toy they want for the holidays this year — four in five parents confirmed that their child is happier, more social, and confident in themselves when they play with their favorite toy ...

At least once a month, someone asks Kathryn Keough, a clinical psychologist at the mental-health nonprofit Child Mind Institute, if their child is in trouble. An expert on juvenile trauma and distress ...

The key components of all games -- whether card games, board games, playground games or video games -- are universal: goals, rules, strategy, challenge and interaction. What's even more interesting is ...

Children are reportedly playing their own version of the violent Netflix series "Squid Game" on the playground at school. "Squid Game" -- Netflix’s "biggest series launch ever" -- tells the story of ...

In 2014, police killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he played with a toy gun at a Cleveland recreation center. Ma’Khia Bryant was 16 when she was killed by police, also in Ohio. In Orlando, six-year-old ...

Backyard Kids recalled 192,000 KidKraft Farm to Table Play Kitchens after a 23-month-old died from strangulation in 2023. The hooks used for toy accessories pose a risk if children climb or crawl ...

Think of it as the sound of budding resilience and capability. Having children comes with a lot of surprises, but the one thing for which I was wholly unprepared was the noise level in the house.

In 20222, the federal government spent approximately $52 billion on roads. This infrastructure is obviously a necessary expenditure. Roads and highways are the connective tissue of our economy, one ...