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!...
Learning Without Lessons: How Kids Figure Things Out on Their Own
For most of human history children learned WITHOUT lessons, says anthropologist David Lancy. They watched, imitated, and played their way into competent, confident adulthood. They need the freedom to do...
When Holly Grant let her three kids walk to the library on their own they developed a taste for independence, and dragons. (Gotta read the post to enjoy their kid...
No Phones Allowed? My Kids Were Practically In Tears
School teacher Ezra Alexander started a Let Grow Play Club after school: Kids could play with anyone and do almost anything -- except their phones. At first, this made his...
Strict Parenting? Gentle Parenting? Ellen Galinsky’s “Autonomy-Support” Alternative
Teens need two things -- some autonomy and some support. Put them together and you get autonomy-supportive parenting, which Ellen Galinsky examines and ultimately recommends in her new book, "The...
After hearing Jon Haidt discuss "The Anxious Generation," Larissa asked her 5th grader if she'd like to walk home unsupervised for the first time. And that's when everything changed!
The Cure for America’s “Drastically Less Happy” Kids
Americans under age 30 are drastically less happy than older Americans, in part because they get so little chance to play on their own. But play is nature's anti-depressant.
