Looking for a place where your kids can play? Oddee has a list of places to avoid. Seems these places all have something, well, inappropriate about...
Darell Hammond | Posted 05.09.2012
Where The Wild Things Are shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.
Darell Hammond | Posted 04.25.2012
We as a country have taken playground safety too far. We have crossed the line from common sense to that murky "What if?" territory in which we imagine every conceivable accident.
Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 04.13.2012
With short attention spans and sleep deprivation, we were seeking the ultimate itinerary for a speedy trip to Paris with kids.
Jamie Davis Smith | Posted 05.22.2012
I urge D.C. to bring the adaptive swing back to Chevy Chase Playground and to include at least some adaptive equipment in all future playground renovations. These small acts would provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.03.2012
Parents are outraged after nearly two dozen 5th graders at Washington Elementary School in New Ulm, Minn., were caught playing a game called "rape tag...
Dave Astor | Posted 09.25.2011
Makes you wonder why some people have kids or canines when their need to connect with other living beings is mostly satisfied by wireless gadgets.
The New York Times | John Tierney | Posted 09.18.2011
When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York's playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city's par...
Darell Hammond | Posted 10.05.2011
Summer should be a time for roaming, discovering and running outside -- but unfortunately, for all too many kids, more free time means more screen time and more structured activities.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 07.13.2011
Darell Hammond (not to be confused with the similarly named "SNL" alum) is very serious about playing around. He's spent more than 15 years establishi...
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
For a limited time only, we can go to the Congo for $799.99!
Irene Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
Research indicates that children who live near a park are less likely to be overweight than kids without a park nearby. Ensuring our kids have safe places to play can be a simple part of a solution to our crisis of obesity.
Posted 05.25.2011
For nearly 15 years, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond has found one American statistic inexcusable: well over half of children in this country don't...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
Hey, the folks at KaBOOM! get playgrounds built and a lot more. Last year they got one done in San Francisco, and it really matters:One year ago to...
New York Magazine | Sarah Bernard & S.Jhoanna Robledo | Posted 05.25.2011
The top nineteen sites to dig, swing, scale, slide, and herd hippos....
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Complaints have prompted New York City's public housing authority to change a playground jungle gym made to resemble a jail. Workers...
James S. Marks | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to improving the health of Americans, we normally talk about what happens in a doctor's office. And when it comes to improving educatio...
Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011
I am fascinated by playgrounds as mirrors of our society. And, lately, I have jumped back into playgrounds with both feet as I accompany my 20-month-old grandson Cash to one or another playground in Queens.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011
All of the time I spend with the Princeling, nearly every waking minute of his life, and he chose the one hour that I wasn't with him to mark such an important milestone in his life?
Oddee.com | Posted 05.25.2012