In her interviews with hundreds of children, one factor stood out: the freedom to build on imagination. In the typical North American playground, equipment is fixed and the options for play are ...

I argued for a while, suggesting that maybe, just maybe, children deserve a morsel of freedom. Then they started threatening arrest.

"Play is the work of the child," wrote Maria Montessori, pushing back against the perennial tendency of adults to trivialize ...

The decline of playtime in children has risen to a concerning percentage. Increasing academic activities, playground closure, ...