By Let Grow

Read Time: 2 minutes

Play in the Time of COVID

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...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 3 minutes

Putting Covid (and other) Risks to Kids in Perspective

We humans get risk wrong. We focus on what's top of mind, or top of the fear chart -- not what's a top killer. This great piece in The New...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 3 minutes

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...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

Peter Gray on NPR Today: Constant Adult Supervision is Destroying Kids’ Mental Health

This morning, the very popular New York City radio host Brian Lehrer interviewed Let Grow Co-founder Peter Gray on WNYC, New York's NPR station. You can listen here. Lehrer is...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 3 minutes

IT’S LEGAL FOR KIDS TO PLAY OUTSIDE IN VIRGINIA!

Hallelujah! Children in Virginia can now play outside without their parents getting investigated for neglect. Sunday night, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed what is colloquially called the “Reasonable Childhood Independence” bill,...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

She Let Her 9-Year-Old Walk Across Central Park without An Adult

A nervous mom finally gave her son the freedom he wanted -- that she'd pretty much wanted for him, too. But it took a little push from me -- And...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 1 minute

Discovery Ridge Elementary

BACKGROUND Students at Discovery Ridge Elementary in O’Fallon, Missouri, were tattling and fighting more than they did before COVID and expecting the adults to soothe them. P.E. Teacher Chris Sevier...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

KQED: “Today’s 18-year-olds are like the 12-year-olds from a decade ago.”

Wonder why kids -- yours, ours, everyone's -- often seem easily flummoxed, discouraged, and young for their age? Or passive? Or just plain anxious? This blockbuster report by Holly Korbey...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 6 minutes

Let Grow Takes a Look at Crime Statistics

Don't let fear rule your parenting. These common sense crime statistics show the world is safer for kids than it's been in decades.
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

Save The Sleepover!

Sleeping bags and tents outside? Pillows and blankets inside? Either way, there is something thrilling and fulfilling about a sleepover. It's like a playdate on steroids! (Though...perhaps that shouldn't be...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

It’s Out There, Kids — Go Find It

The drive to play is in all kids. So is another drive, less often discussed: The drive to explore. Without that drive, kids would be stuck simply waiting for someone...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 2 minutes

Teachers: Press the Re-Set Button Now! You Can Prime Students for a Much Better School Year Ahead

To state the obvious: This school year was not easy. If BEFORE the pandemic kids were passive, anxious and depressed, this year they were whatever the word is for passive,...