Ask a group of kids about their favorite part of the school day and many will talk about something that happened at recess. Maybe they finally made it across the monkey bars. Maybe somebody kicked ...

When one of our sons (then a third grader) lost recess privileges for a week last school year, he came home cranky and irritable. As he put it, “Recess is the only time I can actually really play with ...

But they aren’t necessarily getting that unstructured recess time that’s now required ... need to rely on more organized activities like computer games, drawing, or painting.