Articles By: Let Grow

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Samantha Boardman: Many Parents are Making One Big Mistake, Out of Love

Samantha Boardman is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, frequent guest on The Today Show, and author of the practical, helpful and funny book, Everyday Vitality. On top of...
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Want More Recess? Cut and Paste This Letter!

Great grandma Joanne Ward of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, read Let Grow President Lenore Skenazy's column about the fastest, cheapest child therapy — FREE PLAY. Then she emailed us this worksheet filled...
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The Let Grow Independence Challenge 2022 WINNERS

Take a look at this video and see if you -- and your kids -- aren't totally inspired to LET GO and LET GROW! https://youtu.be/PJeuVMKp-ok For our third annual Let...
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Open the Door and Wave Goodbye! Practical Tips to Get Your Kids Outside, Part 3

As promised, folks, here is Part 3 (out of 4) of Let Grow's series on how to make kids want to GO OUTSIDE and STAY OUTSIDE! We were inspired by...
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Practical Tips to Get Your Kids Outside: Part 2

Recently we published the first of our reader suggestions for how to get your kids outside -- to play, to explore, to draw, to not think the only fun place...
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How Parents & Teachers Can Help Anxious Kids: Dealing with Discomfort is the Secret Sauce

Today’s Let Grow webinar features Doctors Camilo Ortiz and Regine Galanti discussing techniques to lower anxiety among kids (which sometimes requires lowering anxiety among us adults). Tune in at 12:30...
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Let Grow Presents: PRACTICAL TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS TO PLAY OUTSIDE

Recently we posted a note from William Fugate, the Ohio dad of a girl, 5, and toddler son. He’d just read Free-Range Kids and now wanted to encourage his daughter's...
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PARENTS and KIDS: OUR INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE CONTINUE$! YOU CAN STILL ENTER TO WIN!

Wow us some more, folks! The Let Grow Independence Challenge continues this week, two ways: Calling all parents! First, we want to hear from you PARENTS! Enter here to tell...
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Readers’ Advice to Mom Who (Temporarily) Lost Kid at Airport

Recently we ran the letter a mom named Katy wrote to Let Grow about how her child, 6, wandered off at Newark Airport after Katy had asked her to stay...
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Third Weekly Summer of Independence Challenge: Picnic Time!

Do your kids know that even cold liver tastes great if you eat it outside? Well, it doesn't. But most other things do. That's why for this week's sweet, simple...
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Second Weekly Let Grow Summer Challenge: Fort Day!

Not FortNITE, folks. Fort DAY. For this second week of Let Grow's Summer of Independence, we want to see what your kids can create that answers to the description of...
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Help! I Lost My 6-Year-Old at the Airport for 15 Minutes and Now We Are Both Terrified

Hello Let Grow -- My name is Katy, and I stumbled upon your website yesterday, while searching for stats on how often kids lost at airports get abducted. The thing...
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