Today's timely Trick or Treating post comes to us from Dixie Dillon Lane, an American historian and mother of four enthusiastic trick-or-treaters. She is an associate editor for Hearth & Field. You...
JOY: Abducted Girl is Found Safe! What This Means for Parents
Joy, amazement, gratitude – fantastic emotions are surging through a whole lot of us today, for Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old abducted while riding her bike in upstate New York, has...
Did Your School Change its Drop-Off/Pick-Up Process?
A Let Grow fan in Davenport, Iowa, wrote to say how shocked he was to discover that his old elementary school's dinky little drop-off lane had grown into a gigantic...
Obviously, technology that didn’t exist when most of us were kids is now an everyday part of childhood. That’s why we devoured “Growing Up in Public,” the brand new book...
Let Grow and “Independence Therapy” in The New York Times: Hope for Anxious Kids
What if one of the big reasons kids are so anxious is simply this: They're micromanaged by adults? As we've often noted here, kids are increasingly in adult-run classes, clubs,...
To be a kid today means to grow up in a culture constantly underestimating your creativity, resilience, gumption, and especially: your curiosity. The hallmark of our era is the mistaken...
Readers -- We are working to create a list of camps (day camps and overnight) that do not allow phones. If you know of any, please write the camp name/city/state...
“But Couldn’t Kids Get Hurt?” The Media’s Favorite Gotcha!
It is always hard to deal with the media's cheapest trick: hypothesizing. You see it every September when a child is dropped off at the wrong bus stop somewhere in...
Siblings Survive 40 Days in Jungle. Here It’s “Don’t Let Kids Cross Street till Age 10”
Emergency workers recently rescued four siblings between the ages of 1 and 13 who had survived in the jungles of Colombia for 40 days after their plane crashed. Much of the public...
How a 14-Year-Old Genius Developed Genius Social Skills
Just had to share this story of Mike Wimmer, a prodigy from North Carolina who just graduated college at age 14. He also runs two tech companies and is trying...
From Childhood Tinkering to the Household Appliance You Probably Adore
Meet Rod Brooks, a guy whose life story embodies the big idea: What we do as kids, just for fun, is developmental GOLD. It can help us discover our deepest...
As I explain in Free-Range Kids, we are so very worried about the extremely rare (thank God!) crime of child abduction because of our primed-for-panic brains. And the media. And...
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