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Unstructured and Unstoppable: The Joy of Forest Play Club

Sure, students at Garlough Environmental Magnet School spend time outside—you’d expect that from a school with a mission stating, “GEMS uses the natural world to enrich learning.” But in the...
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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...
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By Guest Author

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Introducing The Balance Project

Bringing life + tech into harmony for kids, families and communities At Let Grow we had a vision to develop a toolkit to empower parents and community leaders. The goal?...
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By Guest Author

Read Time: 3 minutes

Beyond Fear: Raising Confident Kids in an Uncertain World

As parents, nothing is more important to us than the safety and happiness of our children. We naturally want to protect them from any harm, and that's a huge part...
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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...
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By Guest Author

Read Time: 9 minutes

The Trophy That Ruined Everything

Mike Strambler is a psychologist and Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He writes the Substack “As Is.” When I met him at a party several months ago,...
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By Guest Author

Read Time: 3 minutes

Columbia B-School Professor and Wife Learn a Powerful Lesson in Adventure—from Their Kids

Jenn Olayon and Adam Galinsky are leaning into our motto, “When adults step back, kids step up.” Adam is a social psychologist and a professor of leadership and ethics at...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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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...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

Five States Considering “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Laws

Kids have the right to some independence, and parents have the right to give it to them. That’s why Let Grow is thrilled that legislators in five states are hoping...
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