Articles By: Lenore Skenazy

By Lenore Skenazy

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A Girl in China Cries About Homework and It Resonates Around the World

This little girl in China is going viral, thanks to her desperation for some time off from homework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEyVqA-DVwg Poignant! Powerful! Over here, we appreciate this video...and hope it was...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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What Kids Are Desperate For — And Not Getting

What are kids today desperate for? The graph says it all: It's from an elementary school in a middle class neighborhood that offers all sorts of afterschool activities -- music,...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Organize The Legos and Hang with Cool Parents: Part 4 of Practical Tips for Getting Your Kids Outside

Hi Readers! I just visited a school with a Let Grow Play Club today and it was SO DARN GREAT to see kids JUST HAVING FUN. They were drawing with...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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The 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do, According to Gever Tulley

Educator, entrepreneur and gadfly Gever Tulley saw it before a lot of us: How anything “sharper than a golf ball” was getting labeled too dangerous for kids. And that kids...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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“More Therapists” Is Not the Only Solution to the Youth Mental Health Crisis!

If we agree there's a youth mental health crisis, can we also agree that "More therapists!" is not the only solution? I worry our leaders automatically gravitate to middle-age solutions...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Tell Us How You Let Your Kid Do Something on Their Own — and Win $100!

Our Let Grow Independence Challenge ends on Wednesday. As with most things in life, you gotta be in it to win it! Win $100 just by telling us HOW YOU...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Let’s Hear It For Sittervising!

The Scary Mommy site is always on top of the parenting trends and its latest find is “Sittervising.” The not-exactly-groundbreaking idea is for a parent to SIT while their kid...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Dare You Not to Smile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIkHCNDd7wk&t=13s Not sure anyone can watch this video of "loose parts" free play at a school in Portland, Oregon, and not smile. Look how the kids are SO ALIVE, so...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Laundry Advice from a College President: Start Sooner

A college president and college professor find themselves all too familiar with the granular back-and-forthing on Facebook forums for parents of students at their institutions. And in an article in...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Save The Sleepover!

Sleeping bags and tents outside? Pillows and blankets inside? Either way, there is something thrilling and fulfilling about a sleepover. It's like a playdate on steroids! (Though...perhaps that shouldn't be...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Suggestions Needed! Dad Asks What Books and Activities Will Make His Kid Curious, Active & Independent?

Got this letter today and decided to crowd source it! Please send your suggestions to Info@LetGrow.org and we will edit them down and share right here, along with our own!...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Another Kid Lost at the Airport — With a Twist

The other day when a mom named Katy told us about losing her daughter at Newark Airport -- and then finding her -- we got a wonderful mix of advice...
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