Hospitals' fear of elderly people falling is so great that they are preventing them from walking, reports The Washington Post. This is ostensibly for the patients' own good -- yet not getting up for even just a few days is crippling them: Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an
What happens when a high school student gets lost on a practice run through the suburbs? Linda Flanagan is a cross-country coach and writer who lives in Summit, NJ. She’s a regular contributor to NPR’s Mindshift (see here and here) and an occasional writer for The Atlantic (here). Now she’s working on a book about
Ignore the first few seconds and then -- bask in two minutes of Star Trek: Voyager going where many of us have gone before, back to a world where childhood was not a totally structured, totally adult-run 18-year teachable moment. Bonus: Send your kids out to play while you start noodling around for half an
Let Grow works to make it normal, safe and LEGAL to give children reasonable independence. After getting the first “Free-Range Parenting” law passed in Utah in 2018, we have been working in six new states this year. In the spring, South Carolina’s Senate passed a Free-Range Parenting bill. The House will take it up in
Antonio Sacre is an award-winning storyteller and author-in-residence at the UCLA Lab school. His popular children’s books include A Mango in the Hand. His goal is to inspire families to gather their own family tales and become storytellers themselves. Here he is on Twitter and Instagram. LET GROW: What do you tell parents who have a hard time coming
At Let Grow, we believe that kids can handle so much more than society gives them credit for. That includes the ability to process ideas that are unfamiliar or even unsettling. To find out just how young people are doing that -- thinking for themselves -- we hold an annual "Think for Yourself" college scholarship