Article Category: News

By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 7 minutes

How Has Childhood Changed in the last 12 Years?

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...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 2 minutes

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...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 2 minutes

Play in the Time of COVID

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...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

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...
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By Let Grow

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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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By Let Grow

Read Time: 5 minutes

TWO STATES PASS “CHILDHOOD INDPENDENDENCE” LAWS THAT ENSURE IT IS NOT NEGLECT FOR KIDS TO PLAY OUTSIDE

Third state debates law and its passage looks likely, too. Go out and play, kids. It’s about to be legal! Oklahoma and Texas both passed “Reasonable Childhood Independence” bills on...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 3 minutes

Putting Covid (and other) Risks to Kids in Perspective

We humans get risk wrong. We focus on what's top of mind, or top of the fear chart -- not what's a top killer. This great piece in The New...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

How Dare Yahoo News Run This “Mom Issues Terrifying Warning” Story?

A mom AFRAID of being trafficked is not a mom who WAS about to be trafficked. Opened up my Yahoo News page today and there's a list of stories: Something...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

Today’s Children Don’t Get to Play Outside Unsupervised Until They are Two Years Older Than Their Parents Were

British study finds "gradual lockdown" of childhood. A survey of almost 2000 parents of kids age 5-to-11 in Britain found that most parents aren't letting their kids play outside, unsupervised,...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

When P.E. Teacher Let His Students Organize their Own Games Outside, He Was Blown Away

They learned to move and try new challenges, but that was just the beginning. Today's 19-year-olds are as sedentary as adults age 60. That was the startling discovery of Vadim...
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By Let Grow

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To Prevent Bullying, School Bans Jumprope and Ball Playing, Replaces Them with Poetry Reciting and Supervised Quizzes

Students aren't trusted to choose how they unwind In an effort to eliminate bullying, a school in England has replaced breaktime playground games with poetry recitations, choir, and quizzes. Said...
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By Let Grow

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A Democrat and a Republican Explain Why They are Sponsoring a “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bill in Oklahoma

The two dads sponsoring the "Reasonable Childhood Independence" bill in Oklahoma already saw it pass by 91 to 1 in the House. Now it goes to the Senate. Why do...
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