Elephants take mud baths for many reasons, including cooling off, protecting their skin from the sun, covering small nicks ...

Meet Duke, an adopted senior Golden Retriever who’s become an internet-famous dog for bringing all sorts of random household objects to his bed every day; we're talking books, laptops, teacups, you ...

“It seems that all the parents in the neighborhood let the kids just run around and play in their front and backyards unsupervised,” she said Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of ...

Alison Stenning currently sits on the board of directors of Playing Out and is a trustee of Shiremoor Adventure Playground Trust in North Tyneside. In July 2025, a letter from an English city council ...

Mike Hardesty is an artist from Littlestown, Pennsylvania. He is the CEO of Flying Colors of Success for Carroll County. As a child, he was interested in art. “My mother was very artistic, so I got ...

It’s Conflict Resolution Day, and if you want to celebrate after making up with your loved one, consider celebrating while taking in one of our best bet picks. This week, we’ve got a play by a ...

To the parents, most of them professional people and graduates of the best colleges in the country, Melody Workshop in Berkeley, Calif, seemed an ideal nursery school. It was run by imaginative Lila ...

'Feral child summer’ isn't just a social media catchphrase. Here’s how unstructured outdoor play builds stronger brains and lasting ties to nature. Free play in wild spaces challenges children to take ...

In the Mud begins with a tense and gritty scene: a group of women being driven to La Quebrada prison, but a sudden attack on their van plunges them into a river. One of the women frees herself and ...

Kids are criticized for being glued to screens, but it's the only option many have when they aren't allowed to play outside. The world has changed a lot over the years. Technology has become so ...

When my kids tumble into the car after an afternoon spent outside with muddy knees, tangled hair and stories about the worms they found or the forts they built, they are lit up. They are calm. They ...