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Neglect Charges for Letting 13-Year-Old Babysit? Compelling Testimony at Hearing

“Let me tell you about Alice,” said Mariel Mussack, an attorney with Community Legal Services, testifying in the Pennsylvania State Legislature on Monday. Alice, Mussack said, is a single mom...
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By Andrea Keith

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Let Grow is Life Changing: Parents and Kids Agree

Maybe you’ve heard us talking about the anxiety-busting, confidence-growing properties of The Let Grow Experience, but you’re wondering: What exactly is it? How does it work? Like this: Schools give...
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By Let Grow

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Why Did The Turkey Download this Page? To Get his Free Thanksgiving Jokes and More!

We have several Thanksgiving activity pages in our Give Thanks Kit. You'll find a jokes pages, a fill-in-the-blank sheet about the day, and thankful cards.
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By Lenore Skenazy

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LOSING TRACK OF YOUR KIDS SHOULD NOT BE A CRIME

Brittany Patterson had to take one of her four children to a medical appointment, and her youngest son, 10-year-old Soren, was going to come with them. This was a few...
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By Let Grow

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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...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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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,...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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HOW HELICOPTER PARENTING GOT MORE INTENSE

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...
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By Let Grow

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The More Kids Walk, The Better

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....
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By Andrea Keith

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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...
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By Vanessa Elias

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This Halloween, Don’t Steal the Magic

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...
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By Let Grow

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From Footbinding to Play Dates

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...
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By Guest Author

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“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...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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The 3 Halloween Myths that Refuse to Die

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...
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