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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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