“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...
Librarian Tells Mom She Broke The Law By Letting Son Browse 6 Minutes in Children’s Room
Let Grow is working to pass a Reasonable Childhood Independence bill in Connecticut. We asked citizens there to write letters in support of it. Your jaw will drop as you...
The Easiest Rx for Kids’ Mental Health? More Independence: Journal of Pediatrics
An article about to be published in the the Journal of Pediatrics is titled, “Decline inIndependent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary ofthe Evidence." If...
To Fight Depression, Kids Need to Run Around, UNSUPERVISED
At last, it's not just us saying this! A study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that "Physical activity can help alleviate depressive symptoms in...
Just one month ago, Flaco the owl was sprung from New York's Central Park Zoo. Until then the Eurasian Eagle Owl had lived a very safe and sleepy life in, basically,...
Library Warns “Police May Be Called” on Kids Under 15
It's hard to read, due to the glare, but this sign in a Corpus Christi, TX, library states: "Police may be called if a child under 15 is not accompanied...
In a piece about how stone-cold geniuses like Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, and physicist John von Neumann spent their childhoods (hint: lots of free time, and homeschooling, often also by geniuses),...
Why I’m Not Excited By That “Overprotected Kids Die Younger” Study
A very long study of about 1,000 British and Brazilian Boomers looked at whether their upbringing impacted their longevity. Among other things, the researchers found that folks who'd grown up...
Ashley Scroggins is one of the two runner-up winners of the Let Grow Independence Challenge Essay Contest for Parents. We asked folks to tell us how they got up the...
Crystal Kupper is the Grand Prize winner in the first annual Let Grow Independence Challenge Parent Essay Contest. We asked parents to send us short essays about how they got...
Should I Worry About My Kids Wasting Time Over the Summer?
With the lazy, hazy days of you-know-what upon us officially starting today, should you worry about your kids goofing off? Being idle? Spending tons of time making sculptures out of...
