It’s easy to think of stress as something that only happens to adults. But think back to your childhood: being a kid isn’t easy.

Sure, you don’t need to worry about mortgage payments or making your husband or wife happy when you’re in, say, third grade.

But being a kid isn’t all cartoons and playing in the backyard. Children have their own stresses: Grades. Hearing their parents argue about money or work. Seeing scary images on the news. The need to fit in at school.

Adopted or foster children often need to deal with these same stresses as well as the stresses that come from finding themselves in a new home.

Buying a trampoline can be a pretty major purchase.

You need to think about trampoline safety, about cost, about whether you have enough space in your yard to put what amounts to a new structure.

With all of these things to think about, choosing the right one for your children can feel overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to feel that way.

Children need to move, and this is obvious every time they barrel into you for a hug or seem obsessed with getting somewhere as quickly as their tiny feet can carry them. While it might seem like they're just burning off energy, they are learning a lot just by moving around.

Read on to see how time outdoors – whether they’re swinging on wooden swing sets or running around the backyard – is helping your kids learn.

The statistics on child obesity can be scary.

Close to 20 percent of America’s children deal with obesity, with some groups of children more affected than others.

While child obesity is a problem, it’s not an insurmountable one. A proper diet coupled with vigorous outdoor play can go a long way to keeping kids healthy.

The country has managed to begin reversing the obesity trend in children in recent years, as President Barack Obama said in his proclamation naming September National Child Obesity Awareness Month.