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With summer camps filling up fast and screens taking center stage, many parents are rethinking how to keep kids engaged in ways that matter. They want something close to home, but rich in creativity ...
In early April, as COVID-19 tightened its grip and schools and businesses shut down, I started noticing a curious trend around my home in Durango, Colorado: forts. Lean-tos, rock structures, and other ...
Do the words “pillow fort” conjure parental fear of messy blankets, all the couch cushions ruined, and all your children sleeping out of their beds for the foreseeable? Well, that last one might be ...
Harkening back to an era when it was the norm for children to be sent outside to play with other kids in their neighborhood, an Eagan family has created a backyard snow fort that serves as a magnet ...