Dear Parents: Here’s a Child Danger You Didn’t Notice but You Should, Or ELSE!
If you're wondering why parenting seems so fraught, look no further than the child safety industrial complex. I just Googled, "Child Hidden Dangers 2021" (I'm sure there are some for...
We're heading into two weeks (or possibly...two months? two years?) of the kids at home. It's called Christmas Break, as if it's a break from learning. But that's just our...
Girl, 9, Saves Family by Using Unconscious Dad’s Face to Unlock His Phone!
That is pretty much the whole story but holy smokes! Jayline Brandao's parents brought a generator inside after a storm left them without power in their Brockton, Mass., home. Soon...
Childhood Freedom in Action: Japan’s “My First Errand” TV Show
Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter from a Japanese newspaper. She moved to DC in 1999, but grew up in Japan and remembers freedom like you're about to see:...
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Advice for Parents and Teachers
"Your job is less to INSTILL curiosity than to make sure you don't squash what is already there," says Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3ORQllJoA At Let Grow we agree so much...
Some countries are doing just that. But in America, a kid who fell off a slide was awarded $170,000. Germany is adding MORE RISK to its playgrounds. Some of its...
No One Wants to Give Your Trick or Treaters Ecstasy
NO ONE IS GIVING ECSTASY TO TRICK OR TREATERS! Dear Police: Can you please stop telling parents to check their kids’ Halloween candy for drugs? Urging tens of millions of...
When Yellowstone Reduced its Wolves, Eco-Disaster Ensued. And When America Started Reducing Play Time…
"The analogy is obvious," says Playworks' founder Jill Vialet. Embarrassingly, when I first heard about Playworks a decade ago, I rolled my eyes. An organization that sends recess coaches to...
The Startling Things That Happened When a Youth Sports Program Replaced Some Drill Time with Free Play
A radical experiment that could have backfired, didn't! Kids with more time for unstructured play and less for drills at sports practice ended up better players all around.
Deep, Meaningful Play Takes Self-Control…on the Part of the Adults
Like an animal behaviorist studying bonobos in the wild, Peter Gray found himself in the playroom at his church after services were over. Gray is a co-founder of Let Grow...
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