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By Let Grow

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A Gizmo Ate My Child’s Budding Resilience!

Today's post is reprinted from Frank James' Wild Nature Adventure blog. "Ranger James" started and runs the Lure of the Wild Nature Camps in Catonsville, Maryland.  Smart Devices are Hurting Smart...
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Why Did The Turkey Download this Page? To Get his Free Thanksgiving Jokes and More!

We have several Thanksgiving activity pages in our Give Thanks Kit. You'll find a jokes pages, a fill-in-the-blank sheet about the day, and thankful cards.
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What Happens When A Kid Falls Asleep on a Stranger?

Just a little reminder that the idea of "stranger-danger" is twisting our view of humanity. This video was sent to Let Grow by Rosalie Witt, an early childhood instructor, consultant,...
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Children Don’t Need Constant Supervision at the Park

The piece below originally appeared in the Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest, two leafy suburbs of Chicago. It was written in response to an earlier column by...
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A Missing Child and The Terror We All Feel

As of this moment, a 9-year-old girl, Charlotte Sena, is missing in upstate New York. She was camping with her family on Saturday. Last seen, she was on a bike...
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Even The “Hunt, Gather, Parent” Kid Gets Stopped by the Cops

Michaeleen Doucleff is author of the incredibly great, scales-falling-from-our eyes book, "Hunt, Gather, Parent." She and her daughter Rosy traveled the world to witness the parenting practices that have been...
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EVERY WEDNESDAY OFF for Clubs & Fun?

Hard to believe, but the premiere science high school in the Philippines only teaches kids four days a week. Every Wednesday the students have no classes. Instead they get to...
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Houston Parents Get Schools to Restore Recess

Seems like there are big changes underway in about a third of Houston's public schools. The one that play activist Rusty Keeler brought to Let Grow's attention involves what many...
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Kids Need to Feel That They Matter

Jennifer Breheny Wallace is a journalist, mom, long-time friend of Let Grow, and now the author of a book coming out today, “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic —...
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By Let Grow

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Yo-ho-ho and a Disappearing Dad

This post comes from Jeff Nelligan, author of  Four Lessons from My Three Sons - How You Can Raise Resilient Kids, now in its second edition. Calling All Pirates: My two...
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I Was Too Busy to Make Dinner, So My Son…

Readers -- Here's a guest post that makes us happy, happy, happy. (And a little hungry.) Krista Whipple lives with her husband and three children in Southern Utah. She is...
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$300 Top Prize: Show Us Your Kids Doing Something New, ON THEIR OWN!

Welcome to the Fourth Annual LET GROW INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE! We want to see photos and videos of kids doing something new, on their own. Biking, baking, hiking, sawing, mowing, sewing,...
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