The editorial, “ Play time is essential to students’ learning ” [The Altamont Enterprise, May 28, 2025] doesn’t go far enough. Play itself is essential to all learning. Delightful curiosity is a key ...

Right To Play has launched a new three-year Early Childhood Development (ECD) project (2025–2027), aimed at building the capacity of pre-primary teachers, caregivers, and parents. The initiative, ...

Outside of the home, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play and the fundamental right of every ...

Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children's ...

Play isn’t always joyful. It can be messy, frustrating, and full of setbacks. But determination is the point.

Play is often dismissed as just “fun”, but for young children, play is a serious — and essential — business. Defined as ...

Why is there something so deliciously relaxing about sitting in the same room as a friend or partner and reading different ...

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In the simplest of words, parallel play is primarily about “children playing independently in the same area, with the same materials, but with minimal engagement with one another,” according to the ...

(CNN) — Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home on Friday when she went to work in the emergency room at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. Hours later, the bodies of seven ...