Watch the video, below. Happy kids, free play and clean COVID score-card. It's all happening in South Carolina, thanks to 4th grade teacher Kevin Stinehart. Kevin had started a Let...
Housework as Homework: Middle School Assigns “Let Grow Project” During Covid and Students Start Helping Out More
Filling a vacuum -- literally Sometime in the misty past, parents possessed a sort of road map. Collectively they pretty much knew at about what age their kids could or...
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE PASSES “REASONABLE CHILDHOOD INDEPENDENCE” LAW
Last year Brittany Patterson was arrested there when her son walked to the store Just a few months after Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was arrested for not knowing that her...
Mike Strambler is a psychologist and Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He writes the Substack “As Is.” When I met him at a party several months ago,...
Brittany Patterson had to take one of her four children to a medical appointment, and her youngest son, 10-year-old Soren, was going to come with them. This was a few...
At Birch Wathen Lenox, The Kids are Waving Goodbye to their Comfort Zones
Take your pick: Covid. Phones. The culture of fear. The crazy world we live in. No matter what is to blame, something has been sapping kids of their can-do spirit....
Anxious College Students Are Eating Alone in their Rooms. Let Grow May Have a Solution
Today's college students are so anxious, 40% won't even eat in the dining hall. What has made their social anxiety to acute? Maybe growing up with too few chances to...
Blindsided by Our Campers’ Anxiety (and Everything Else!) Issues
Two summers ago Dan Emery's guitar school campers were so anxious and angry, his staff almost quit. He made a Hail Mary call to Let Grow, which gave 5 simple...
Charles Brewer’s Quest to Save Play — By Banning Cars
Kids running around and playing outside till the streetlights came on. That was Charles Brewer’s childhood -- and dream. To make it happen in modern day America, the entrepreneur developed...
Parents at Kids’ Job Interviews: What is Going On?
A front page article in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday chronicles a problem that seems to be a sign of the times: Parents accompanying their kids on job interviews....
