Ever been to a playground where a kid goes rogue on the slide? Or maybe it was your kid? Rather than climb up the steps, sit on their bottom, and face forward as they slide down in an orderly fashion, ...

Back in the day, when my kids were much younger, I'd be thrilled to see a playground near the soccer field where my older daughter had a game. She's always played a lot of soccer. And, from the time ...

Happy Mother’s Day! My mom friends and I are debating a question that is going around social media: Is it OK for kids to climb up the slide at the playground? It’s your classic Mom War: One mom called ...

You — and your child — are probably making a mistake on the playground slide. “My biggest tip for slide safety is to not go down it with your child,” Olivia Reyes, a developmental physical therapist, ...

I bike past Brackett Park on the Greenway all the time, but hadn’t really seen the playground up close, in action. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are ...

The coming week is going to be hot, and playground equipment in sunlight may be scorching. “Just like you would a bottle, you’re testing (playground equipment) with the back of your hand” before ...

For more than a decade, there's been efforts to create more inclusive playgrounds. There are about 1,100 such playgrounds across the country and a small Ohio town had now added another. For more than ...