Not all screen time is created equally. Experts explain why quality matters more than quantity and how parents can rethink ...

How much play time do kids need? Children need much more than they usually get. Studies have found that children today spend less time engaged in creative or free play, especially outside ...

And it did not look at how children were using their screen time, be it to watch television, play videogames or use social media. The study, of 4,500 US children, published in The Lancet Child ...

But today’s kids spend far less time playing than their parents did. Risky play involves kids experimenting and pushing themselves to figure out what will happen, without knowing the exact outcome.