We need to recognize that empathy, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential to the 21st century.

This year, in 2020, summer camps are serving a third need: a controlled experiment on how best, if at all, to reopen schools in the fall.

Play to Live is now one year old! It's time to have a birthday party!

Parks and recreation professionals believe so much in our profession and its power of bringing people, families, and communities together.

Resolve to make your 2020 more playful. Here are 20 ways you can live more playfully this year... starting right now.

To the child who does not play higher-level sports, recreation level sports are not "just rec." It's their NBA, their MLB, their MLS.

Play can foster a lifelong love of science, engineering, technology, and math.

Brian VanDongen's book, Play to Live: Life Skills and Joy Through the Natural Talent to Play, reached the #1 New Release on Amazon in...

It's been one week since the play world descended on Clemson University for the 10th Anniversary Conference on the Value of Play, fondly...

Play is crucial in a child’s physical, social, and emotional development.  But most of the year, kids don’t get enough time to play....

It’s early on Christmas morning. Little Timmy is awake early because of the excitement to see what Santa left for him under the tree. As...

Children who grow up watching sports all have big athletic dreams when they are young.  It’s hard to blame them.  Who wouldn’t want to...