child development

The benefit of youth sports plays an important role as the conduit through which children learn important life lessons, values, compassion, and good ethics. It…

My last two columns came about as a result of some recent developments related to the ASTM Standards Subcommittee meetings in May. I intended to start this…

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

“First, do no harm” is a popular mantra of the medical profession. At least that was the phrase that was drilled into me all through my undergraduate and…

Making the connection between playgrounds and theater is nothing short of brilliant, and nothing even shorter of obvious. Playgrounds, after all, are theater.…

When someone says “adventure playground” I, and I suspect most people, have a vision somewhat like the one above and envision a playspace comprised mostly of…