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Beyond Fear: Raising Confident Kids in an Uncertain World

As parents, nothing is more important to us than the safety and happiness of our children. We naturally want to protect them from any harm, and that's a huge part...
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Read Time: 9 minutes

The Trophy That Ruined Everything

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,...
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Columbia B-School Professor and Wife Learn a Powerful Lesson in Adventure—from Their Kids

Jenn Olayon and Adam Galinsky are leaning into our motto, “When adults step back, kids step up.” Adam is a social psychologist and a professor of leadership and ethics at...
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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!...
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Read Time: 5 minutes

I Thought I Had to Be Teaching My Kids All. The. Time.

This “Ah ha!”-filled post comes to us from Abigail Weidmer, a homeschool mom and nonprofit grants consultant in Billings, Montana. Her three kids range in age from 2 to 7:...
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“I WANT TO BUILD A COCKPIT” BOY, 12, TELLS HIS PARENTS

This story comes to us from Ruth Gaskovski, who should be one proud mom! If You Can’t Build a Plane…by Ruth Gaskovski Our family lives in Southern Ontario, Canada, and...
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He Invented Google Docs. But His Beach Game is Pure Genius.

Kids can have a pretty good time with a pile of sand. Pack it down hard and then start carving your track. Send lots of balls down. And, of course,...
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Child Psychologist,  “Kids Need More Free Play.”

What child psychologist and researcher Tovah Klein saw in her visits to special Chinese schools where kids are given a vast amount of time and space for free play blew...