Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.