Even The "Hunt, Gather, Parent" Kid Gets Stopped by the Cops
Michaeleen Doucleff is author of the incredibly great, scales-falling-from-our eyes book, "Hunt, Gather, Parent." She and her daughter Rosy traveled the world to witness the parenting practices that have been...
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...
Hard to believe, but the premiere science high school in the Philippines only teaches kids four days a week. Every Wednesday the students have no classes. Instead they get to...
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,...
Seems like there are big changes underway in about a third of Houston's public schools. The one that play activist Rusty Keeler brought to Let Grow's attention involves what many...
Jennifer Breheny Wallace is a journalist, mom, long-time friend of Let Grow, and now the author of a book coming out today, “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic —...
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...
This post comes from Jeff Nelligan, author of Four Lessons from My Three Sons - How You Can Raise Resilient Kids, now in its second edition. Calling All Pirates: My two...
Readers -- Here's a guest post that makes us happy, happy, happy. (And a little hungry.) Krista Whipple lives with her husband and three children in Southern Utah. She is...
$300 Top Prize: Show Us Your Kids Doing Something New, ON THEIR OWN!
Welcome to the Fourth Annual LET GROW INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE! We want to see photos and videos of kids doing something new, on their own. Biking, baking, hiking, sawing, mowing, sewing,...
The Surgeon General is right: Loneliness is a massive problem. It's not just sad, it's unhealthy. So let's look at the quickest, easiest way to solve it, at least among...
Vanessa Elias is a longtime friend of Let Grow, a proponent of play, a parenting coach at Thrive with a Guide, and also -- because of all these -- a...
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