By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 5 minutes

Why My Camp Doesn’t Send Parents Daily Pictures

Georgia Del Favero is Executive Director of Camp Birchwood in Laporte,   Minnesota, an overnight camp for girls 6 to 17, bucking the trend of uploading daily photos for parents....
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

Brave AND Scared: Saluting The Chick-fil-A Mom and Son

If you haven't seen this video yet (below), you're in for a lovely couple of minutes: Utah mom Stephanie Read read The Anxious Generation, got to the chapters we helped...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

GEORGIA LEGISLATURE PASSES “REASONABLE CHILDHOOD INDEPENDENCE” LAW

Last year Brittany Patterson was arrested there when her son walked to the store Just a few months after Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was arrested for not knowing that her...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 5 minutes

My Kid Fell Out of My Arms and Needed Brain Surgery! Can I Ever Be Normal Again???

Find out! Ten years ago, I got this letter from a mom who’d been through…a lot: Dear Lenore:  I consider myself a fairly laid back mama, and I’m always of...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

Where Do Mall Rats Go When They Can’t Go to the Mall?

We talk a lot here about how much kids need some time on their own. And we encourage parents – depending on their neighborhood, the age of their kids, yada...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 6 minutes

A Mom, a Movement, and a Play Club

Nicole Cooper is a dietician who became a police officer. Not a career path you see every day! Now she teaches at a police academy in Northern California and is...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

Are Birthrates Down Because Parenting Demands are Up?

Many a truth is to be found in a Reddit rant. Here’s one that really got us thinking by a Redditor named KnightErrant21. He was happy to allow us to...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

Don’t Treat Nature as a Snooty Museum

Is there a “right” way for kids to play in nature? A mom dropped us a note to say: At my son’s pre-k, he and another boy were picking leaves...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

Stop Turning Every Parenting Moment Into a Pop Quiz

Parents Magazine's "5 Ways to Support Your Child's Preschool Curriculum" is not just annoying; it is WRONG. So, is the whole idea it’s pushing: Kids are dumb as dumplings and...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

Is Peace of Mind for Parents Even Possible?

Here’s the wise note from a mom who remains anonymous – and a little nervous. This, she notes, is the human condition. It’s a condition that cannot be changed, even...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

What Kids Learn When We Let Them Bicker

My theory: One reason parents/teachers/adults are spending so much time hovering over kids is that they are spending so much time hovering over kids.  What I mean is: It’s a...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

Child, 5, Cooks for Whole Family (And Becomes World Famous)

Just how capable are kids? Super capable. Astoundingly capable. Unbelievably capable – when they're allowed (or required) to rise to the occasion. So, from time to time, it makes sense...