In the U.K., play streets emerged roughly a century ago as a sort of compromise in the process of booting kids off the street ...

Streets used to be full of kids playing. Can those spaces be reclaimed? As neighborhoods experiment with play streets, grownups can reconsider modern parenting, Stephanie Murray wrote in The Atlantic.

In the U.K., play streets emerged roughly a century ago as a sort of compromise in the process of booting kids off the street. But after peaking in the 1960s, they largely dwindled out, to be ...

Children no longer play freely in driveways, on their streets or in urban parks and courtyards. In many places, children's freedom to roam has been diminishing for generations, but the pandemic ...

Ordinances in Xenia, Ohio, prohibit kids to play in the street, even with portable basketball hoops. ( Getty Images ) “This is a joke,” resident Kara Estle commented.

Readers Weigh In Let the kids play? Here’s what readers said about neighborhood street games. Kids play in Commerce City, Colo., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020.

The Playing Out movement was founded in 2011 by Alice Ferguson, a mother who wanted her own children to be able to play in the street, as she had done as a child.

This came after they received complaints saying kids were playing in the streets and interrupted traffic. They say people can’t put portable hoops, goals, or other recreational equipment in the ...

1:13 Let the kids play: Risky activities benefit children, paediatric society says School is almost out, summer heat is setting in and the children of a small Quebec town southwest of Montreal ...

All children attending the Play Street Museum must be accompanied by an adult at the Play Street Museum on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Sterling gets help from his aunt with a magnetic board.