How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Future Regrets: Winter Edition
Readers: At Let Grow, we are human. Sometimes, we look at the forces arrayed against kids being kids and have to sigh. And then we get a letter like this!...
A 19-Year-Old Reflects: How Let Grow Parenting Prepared Me for Life
We love when readers write to us, especially when they are young -- like the intrepid Magdalene Selin-Williams! Dear Lenore and Let Grow: I have admired and resonated with your work...
Neglect Charges for Letting 13-Year-Old Babysit? Compelling Testimony at Hearing
“Let me tell you about Alice,” said Mariel Mussack, an attorney with Community Legal Services, testifying in the Pennsylvania State Legislature on Monday. Alice, Mussack said, is a single mom...
A shorter version of this essay originally appeared in The Boston Globe. Kids need more independence. If only the law would allow it. By Andrew J. Haile It happened again...
Let Kids Learn About Money in Real Time – Starting Now!
At Let Grow we love to see kids doing more on their own: making breakfast, walking the dog, riding their bikes... But there's an issue we haven’t focused on much:...
Quit Making Such a Big Deal about “Back to School” Jitters
We are thrilled to repost this Substack piece by our friend and Let Grow Board Member, Samantha Boardman. Samantha is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and author of a book...
This essay on child surveillance by Elizabeth Leigh Hunter blew us away. As she notes: The Alpha Generation is the most surveilled group of people on the planet. That merits more...
Awe. You know it when you feel it. And when you do, you are humbled AND exhilarated. Now child development expert Deborah Farmer Kris has written the book, “Raising Awe...
Natalie BeVier is a Freshman at The University of The South in Tennessee, who plans to study English and plays on the women’s field hockey team. Last week I met...
Here’s a little note from Helen, a “helicopter mom” who’s changing. As can you! And if you do, please drop us a line. Hi there! Just read your book Free Range...
Unstructured and Unstoppable: The Joy of Forest Play Club
Sure, students at Garlough Environmental Magnet School spend time outside—you’d expect that from a school with a mission stating, “GEMS uses the natural world to enrich learning.” But in the...
