Ask a group of kids about their favorite part of the school day and many will talk about something that happened at recess. Maybe they finally made it across the monkey bars. Maybe somebody kicked ...

Both call for the same thing: indoor activities, more supervision and antsy kids. Recess, and outdoor activities like physical education, provide young kids with a much needed break during the ...

Recess, they report, gives kids the freedom to problem-solve, navigate emotional problems with their peers and independently learn how to interact in the world. Other reports show that having ...

School went from kids enjoying engaging lessons and receiving three recesses a day to slogging at an institution aiming to create strong test takers. When adults reduce recess time in order for ...

As a former teacher myself, I know that our young kids only have 20 minutes of their eight-hour days to spend at recess to begin with, so when it’s occasionally taken away as a consequence for ...

Dear Meghan: My fifth grader gets yelled at by other kids when he makes mistakes in sports played at recess (e.g. missing a soccer goal or fumbling a football). How should he respond? He is not ...

He's also on the board of Playworks, so knows first-hand the benefits of play! Kids who have a good recess are more ready to learn when they return to the classroom. They get their energy out on ...

Let me see if I can get any advice from kids." "Recess Therapy" is released in partnership with the digital media company "Doing Things Media. Since the show was launched in April 2021 ...

A mom recently went to her daughter's Maryland elementary school to ask why the kids aren't allowed to play tag at recess—or even to close their eyes. "We'd recently transferred from another ...

As adults, we know we couldn’t do it, so why are we expecting our kids to? A national trend is emerging in which recess is being reduced or eliminated entirely, and Tennessee is not immune to ...