Granted, outdoor play during the winter requires a bit more effort than outdoor play during the spring, summer, or fall. You can't just push your kids out the door when it's freezing cold or snowing.

The study, published in February 2017, demonstrates that children who play outside are more likely to cherish and protect nature when they become young adults.

According to Richard Louv, children today do not get enough free play outdoors, resulting in “nature-deficit disorder”, where people lose a connection with the natural world.

UBC pediatric and injury prevention expert Dr. Mariana Brussoni reveals why risky play is so important for children’s health and development. With school out for another month, summer outdoor ...

Not so many years ago, kids went outside to play and didn't return home until the streetlights came on. Not any more. One fourth grader reports that he likes to play indoors better "because that's ...

More than half of American parents are worried their kids aren’t playing outside enough, according to a new poll. A survey of 5,000 parents of children ages 5 to 13, split evenly by state, found ...

Or tell the kids to try playing outdoors for just 10 minutes: “What we see is 10 turns into 20, which turns into 30,” said Larsen. And it’s always worthwhile to make the effort.

Worldwide, smartphones have introduced children to a thrilling virtual world of games, shopping and social networking but lured them away from an essential ingredient of growing up — outdoor ...

As the years have progressed, the tradition of children playing outdoors has reduced to children not playing indoors but rather hardly playing at all. As children have been literally cast under the ...