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Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need... →
Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to... →
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.
Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that... →
At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are... →
I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that... →
We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on... →
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children... →
Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those... →
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to... →
People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground.... →
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the... →
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