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 ...

A girl swings across the monkey bars, an invention adopted in the 1920s in Winnetka, IL that encouraged children to follow an ancestral drive to test their physical limitations. Anthropologists at ...

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 ...