Maybe it was always thus -- that the older you get, the more trust you develop. That's the most positive spin we can put on a new Pew Research study that shows young people are massively more cynical and distrusting than their elders are. Pew's John Gramlich writes: Around three-quarters (73%) of U.S. adults under
Margaret describes herself as "a svelte mom of two living in the Midwest who likes to remember the days when mischievous kids were forgiven instead of held up for public judgment." Dear Let Grow: I know people can be awful but now there are new ways for them to be awful. On NextDoor, three different
This letter wondering if the decline in reading skills could be linked to a decline in plain old playing comes to us from Barbara Chutroo, a social worker and dance/movement therapist who teaches psychology and child development at the New York City College of Technology. Dear Let Grow: I recently read that 4th grade reading skills
From the land of uber-independent kids comes this email (edited to correct the grammar mistakes): Dear Let Grow: We are reading your blog here in Germany...with mild amusement. Here's what happened recently in Leipzig, Germany: A seven-year-old girl was taking a streetcar to school. Alone. Because of construction, the streetcar gets detoured and she has
