Article Source: CNN

Rockwell, a father of two, became frustrated when he took his kids to traditional playgrounds. He found that these play areas lacked creativity.

"Traditional playgrounds are geared toward gross motor skills and linear play ... they are largely made of fixed equipment: seesaws, slides, monkey bars, swings," Rockwell said. "They are fantastic places to build gross motor skills." So he decided to design a playground that focused on building imagination by letting the kids build the playground themselves.

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Article Source: International Herald Tribune

In today’s New York Times, Jan Hoffman explores the thorny issues that schools face in dealing with cyberbullying, those vicious text messages and Facebook postings students often use to hurt each other. She writes that one in five middle-school students has been cyberbullied — through cellphone texts, social networking sites, instant messages and online games, according to a 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, a think tank founded by two criminologists.

Do you need more information about cyberbullying? Elizabeth K. Englander is a professor of psychology and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College, which provides anti-bullying and anti-violence training programs and resources to schools and families.

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Article Source: USA Today

Taylor Bernard, 8, has enviously watched her twin sister excel in sports. But Taylor, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, found her own way to shine: through painting. "It's just something that I can do that makes me have inspiration and confidence," Taylor says.

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Article Source: CS Monitor

As part of her campaign against childhood obesity, Michelle Obama helped launch the ‘Let’s Read. Let’s Move.’ program involving exercise, healthy eating, and reading during the summer break.

School is out for much of the country, and kids everywhere are looking forward to a few months off. But nutrition and education experts warn that for too many kids, summer break is also a time when they backslide educationally and fall into bad eating habits.

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