Remember how fun it was to play on monkey bars? They were by far one of the best activities on a jungle gym while we were growing up, and will likely be for our kids, too. As parents, it’s only ...

An autopsy completed Monday showed a 5-year-old girl died from asphyxiation while playing on the playground at an elementary school east of Atlanta. Parents, grandparents and the Covington community ...

The Full House star and wife Caitlin McHugh share 4½-year-old son Billy Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

A team of Dartmouth anthropologists argue that such playground equipment is important for helping children gain confidence and develop. The jungle gym and monkey bars were patented in 1923 and 1924 by ...

A beloved piece of playground equipment is turning 100 years old. The history of the jungle gym and monkey bars is full of weird and and delightful twists, spanning from Japan to suburban Chicago. A ...

Cover art for the initial serialized Tarzan story, 1912. Source: Public Domain Image This is a story about the origin of “monkey bars,” the playground stalwart that we still call a “jungle gym.” It ...