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From Let Grow reader Malka Neustadter (email: malka.neustadter@gmail) comes this disturbing article illustrative of a growing trend: Convincing parents that if they are not keeping their kids under constant surveillance they will are not parenting prudently:  Dear Let Grow: I thought you would want to see this: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/could-tracking-devices-improve-caregiver-peace-of-mind/ The article places high value on saving

Bureaucrats sent to dream up dangers will do so -- and folks living in reality pay the price: Dear Let Grow: . I run a small summer camp and an after-school care program in Austin, Texas, called Camp Vamanos! Now the eight kids in my care and I are fighting to keep the swing they

Chris and Holly Santillo are authors of the book Resilience Parenting, and a website by the same name. Chris is also founder and head instructor at Potomac Kempo, a martial arts studio with four locations in Alexandria, VA. Holly is the founding conductor of Mount Vernon Children’s Choir -- and a Senior Instructor at Potomac

If you don't think you need an all-seeing doorbell, that's bad news for Amazon, which is selling one called Ring. So now the company is trying to recruit a crime reporter to make sure that stories of scary crimes (or non-crimes, like "stranger alerts") get to you as fast and as often as possible. The

Why won't kids listen, stop fidgeting or sit still? Over at The Military Wife and Mom blog, the reason proffered is that they can't -- they are so deprived of movement and play that they are almost jumping out of their skin. She quotes a doctor saying that parents should even think of free play

Can we please start cutting parents a little slack? Last Tuesday in New Orleans, writes Christian Britschgi in Reason, a mom who happens to be a rapper, Reiona Oliver (a.k.a. GameOva Reedy), was feeling under the weather. So she called a Lyft and put her 5-year-old in it, to get the boy to school. It