Enter the Second Annual Let Grow Independence Challenge and Win!
At Let Grow, we want to see how your kids are stepping up and becoming more independent. That means it's time for our Second Annual Let Grow Independence Challenge. Grand...
Kids, Show Us Something New You’re Doing On Your Own — and Win $500
The Let Grow Independence Challenge is coming back this Sunday! On August 1st -- this Sunday -- Let Grow begins its Second Annual Independence Challenge, asking for photos of kids...
Educator Drew Perkins Gives His Daughters a Surprising — and Transformative — Homework Assignment
The Let Grow Project, a homework assignment where students choose something new to do on their own, doesn't just change the kids. After 15 years as a teacher, Drew Perkins...
“Children Age 10 and Up Can Play Outside, Unsupervised.” Why Let Grow Opposes Age Limits
We appreciate GUIDELINES that recognize child development, but actual age limits can hurt good families. A few years back, after the first "Free-Range Parenting" law passed in Utah -- a...
As Childhood Overprotection Goes Up, Entrepreneurship is Going Down
The drive to make things happen begins as soon as children start to explore the world. But what happens when they don't? In today's USA Today, North Dakota State Business...
A School Psychologist Objects to a Viral TikTok Video about Bullying
Crumpled paper can't heal -- humans can. A video of a mom showing her two kids how every cruel remark is like crumpling a sheet of paper that, even when...
“Why Don’t Kids Go Outside Anymore?” Everyone Has a Theory — What’s Yours?
Hundreds of thousands of people are weighing in on the factors keeping kids -- and especially teens -- on social media, rather than meeting up in real life. The tweet...
Kids are more micromanaged than ever -- but there's hope. I wrote Free-Range Kids 12 years ago, after my column about letting my nine-year-old ride the subway alone became national news and I...
TAKE OUR POLL: Have You Ever Wanted to Let Your Kids Do Something Independently — But Didn’t, for Fear of Someone Calling 911?
An unscientific poll of 348 people on Twitter has us worried. Obviously, a poll on Twitter is nowhere near scientific, and that is even more obviously true when it's a...
Watch the video, below. Happy kids, free play and clean COVID score-card. It's all happening in South Carolina, thanks to 4th grade teacher Kevin Stinehart. Kevin had started a Let...
TEXAS BECOMES THIRD STATE TO ENSHRINE “REASONABLE CHILDHOOD INDEPENDENCE” INTO LAW
One tenth of all Americans now protected by legislation Let Grow helped get passed. Kids don't have to stay at home on the range in Texas. Instead, parents can let...
Oklahoma “Reasonable Childhood Independence Bill” Signed into Law!
Oklahoma’s kids can do cartwheels – literally. No one is going to investigate their parents just for letting them play outside. A bill promoting greater childhood independence and protecting parental...
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