The cardboard box is the greatest toy never sold. Source: Photo Courtesy The Strong National Museum of Play Not every perennially popular toy comes from a store. Take the cardboard box. No company ...

With curiosity and a little mess, pretend play helps build creative children When a child pretends a cardboard tube is a telescope or a dish towel is royal robes, they’re not just having fun, they’re ...

Pretend play is associated with a host of enhanced cognitive abilities such as executive function, language and perspective taking, which are important to education, making the minimization of pretend ...

Scientists have long studied play to gain insights into the developing human mind. By Cassandra Willyard Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, one of the founding fathers of developmental psychology, spent ...