Most kids want to climb everything — couches, chairs, and kitchen counters included. Climbers are toys and structures actually meant for that. “Climbing toys are huge for development,” says Keri ...

I’ve built a treehouse without a tree before, so when my kids started asking for another one, I knew we could make it work. In our previous yard in California, the challenge was a slope and a stand of ...

Reacting to a score during a gym class basketball game are, from left, eighth-graders Emma Matthies and Claudia Perez-Calzada and seventh-graders Jonathon Peery and Nate Shafer. Teri Ourada, the ...