The story of a 5-year-old who wandered away from home is going viral today for a wonderful reason: The cops did not arrest the parents! In Jacksonville, Florida, a 5-year-old...
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...
“What if the ways in which we are parenting are making life harder on our kids and harder on us? What if by doing less, parents would foster better outcomes for...
The New York Times printed some surprising advice this weekend: “Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often.” At Let Grow, we agree! In a culture that demands we spend ever...
