Joe Frost

In observing children in my neighborhood and many other neighborhoods, one may assume that few children live there. Along almost all the sidewalks and walking,…

Historically, free spontaneous play was tempered with physical work and set in the fields, barnyards, streams, countryside, and vacant city lands. Today,…

Experts representing child development, education, health, kinesiology, playground design, and child injury litigation responded to the question: Why do…

The current trend to exclude playground play that involves risk—physical contact between players, being hit with balls, or even running on the playground—is a…

On July 1, 2008, the Texas Education Agency released the results of a groundbreaking physical fitness assessment of 2.6 million Texas public school students in…

Each year in the United States, the number of children with obesity problems grows. This condition doesn’t seem to improve and hasn’t for quite some time.…

When the first settlers came to America, they met Native Americans who had mastered the art of growing kids using a combination of play, work, and tutorial,…

The history of children’s play warns against both excessive adult interference and no involvement, yet shows that supervision, assistance, play leadership, or…

During the late twentieth century, children began to lose their historic rights and opportunities for free, outdoor play, and in the span of a few decades, the…