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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

Child, 5, Cooks for Whole Family (And Becomes World Famous)

Just how capable are kids? Super capable. Astoundingly capable. Unbelievably capable – when they're allowed (or required) to rise to the occasion. So, from time to time, it makes sense...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

3 Pieces of Advice for the Mom of a Scared 4th Grader

From time to time, we get asked for advice on when to let go/let grow. Often, the query involves a difference of opinion between husband and wife. But the issue...
By Guest Author

Read Time: 3 minutes

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!...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

What Age Should Kids LEGALLY Be Allowed to Play Outside?

At Let Grow we say: That should be up to the parents. A few years back, after the first Reasonable Childhood Independence law passed in Utah – a great day!...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

To Fight Anxiety, A School Unbuttons Recess and Boosts Independence

About a month ago, I visited the Strelitz Academy in Virginia Beach. Wow! Everyone in the elementary school is doing The Let Grow Experience, so there were paper trees in...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

THE 10 WORST LET GROW STORIES OF 2024 – AND 4 REASONS FOR GREAT HOPE!

It’s not the end of the year without an end-of-the-year reckoning, is it? Here is our list of the 10 worst Let Grow stories of 2024, and reasons for hope....
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

How Boring Playgrounds Stifle Play

I live in New York City. It’s green enough for me. But when I saw the work of Sharon Danks, CEO/founder of Green Schoolyards  America, it became obvious that most...
By Andrea Keith

Read Time: 5 minutes

The Perfect Gift…That Can Change Your Life

What can change your life for the better? Hope and a plan of action. That’s what you get in the book Everyday Vitality. It’s by Let Grow board member –...
By Andrea Keith

Read Time: 3 minutes

Christmas Break Activities for Bored Kids & Harried Parents

Christmas break – winter break, Christmas vacation – whatever you call the upcoming school holiday, it’s great…until it isn’t. Even in 1951, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 3 minutes

Groundbreaking Yale Study Discovers Cure for “Helicopter Parenting”

When adults step back, kids step up. That’s the Let Grow motto. The only problem is: It’s hard to get adults to do that. Helicopter parenting has become pretty much...
By Guest Author

Read Time: 5 minutes

I Thought I Had to Be Teaching My Kids All. The. Time.

This “Ah ha!”-filled post comes to us from Abigail Weidmer, a homeschool mom and nonprofit grants consultant in Billings, Montana. Her three kids range in age from 2 to 7:...
By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

Thoughts on the Georgia Mom Story  

The case of Brittany Patterson has already become part of pop culture: A Georgia mom was arrested and handcuffed in front of her kids for the "crime" of not knowing...