When you think of kink and BDSM, what do you imagine? We’re guessing dark dungeons, paddles, crops, black leather, and pain-play. Scenes of spanking and paddling tend to come to mind. But this ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Tim Walsh, toy designer with The Playmakers and author of “Timeless Toys,” talks about the origins of Play-Doh.

This post is in response to The Elephant in the Room… Was Screaming By Scott G. Eberle Ph.D. In a recent post for his blog, “Play in Mind,” historian and essayist Scott Eberle defends play as a key ...

Medically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyD, MPHMedically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyD, MPH Play therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is primarily used for children. Since children may not have the ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. On a Friday during one of those long, exhausting days, two birds flew into my classroom. It was ...

It means more than you think. What does it truly mean to “play a video game?” That might seem like a basic question, and many might reply, “You turn the game on and use your controller or keyboard to ...

Baseball has a way of sneaking magic into the margins. The game can sit still for hours, pitch after pitch, moving at a snail’s pace, until — in the blink of an eye — something extraordinary unfolds ...