How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Future Regrets: Winter Edition
Readers: At Let Grow, we are human. Sometimes, we look at the forces arrayed against kids being kids and have to sigh. And then we get a letter like this!...
We Couldn’t Find Our Kid for 15 Minutes – Now I’m Terrified!
I had a similar experience last week and have been pondering a similar question since then…The thought I keep coming back to is that maybe it's not inherently bad that...
How to Fight the Obsessive Fear of Unlikely Dangers
Inside Out 2 gave kids a way to picture anxiety. For parents, all you need is this classic Modern Love column, “A Marriage Stressed by Obsessions and Compulsions.” In it,...
You can’t find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when, and why that morphed into “intensive parenting” than this New York Times podcast from about...
Is there a path to success kids can take? Yes -- if they put on their sneakers. The more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults....
Mom Jailed for Letting Son Walk Outside: John Stossel’s Video and 3 More Facts
A mother was ARRESTED for letting her 8-year-old son walk half a mile home. Prosecutors said she put her kid “in imminent danger of death.” Really? So begins this viral...
It was October 2018, and the phrase “Let Grow!'' had permeated much of the K-5 parent community as our schools had embraced the Let Grow Experience. Saying “Let Grow!” while...
We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervised play. But for about a thousand...
“I WANT TO BUILD A COCKPIT” BOY, 12, TELLS HIS PARENTS
This story comes to us from Ruth Gaskovski, who should be one proud mom! If You Can’t Build a Plane…by Ruth Gaskovski Our family lives in Southern Ontario, Canada, and...
A few years back, a parent on our Raising Independent Kids FB Group, wrote: I can't with the Halloween scare tactics. One local urgent care center is offering to x-ray...
At Birch Wathen Lenox, The Kids are Waving Goodbye to their Comfort Zones
Take your pick: Covid. Phones. The culture of fear. The crazy world we live in. No matter what is to blame, something has been sapping kids of their can-do spirit....
A front-page article in The Wall Street Journal described the difficulty – even agony – some parents are feeling when their kids go off to college and are harder to...
Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard Let Their Kids “Free-Range” for 7 Hours!
Kristen Bell and hubby Dax Shepard went to Copenhagen and let their kids "Free-Range" -- yep, that's the term Kristen uses -- for seven hours! Kristen tells Jimmy Kimmel that...
