Article Category: News

By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

New App Pinpoints Places Where “Stupid Parents” Let Kids Play on Their Own

Must Parents Supervise Their Kids at ALL TIMES? A map app in Japan is being used to alert users to places where kids are making noise or playing unsupervised. A...
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By Let Grow

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Move Along, Bud: Anonymous Gift of Roses Mistaken for Sex Trafficking Scheme

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it probably is a duck. But if it looks like a rose and smells like a rose, it could...
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By Let Grow

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Yay! Ohio Mom Arrested for Working Evening Shift at Pizzeria While Kids Stayed in Motel 6 Room Gets $165,000 thru Go Fund Me

Will use the money to buy permanent housing Shaina Bell, the 24-year-old Ohio mom arrested for leaving her kids in a Motel 6 room while she worked her evening shift at a...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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What Do a Gay, Black, Democrat Mom of One and a Straight, White GOP Grandma of 20 Have in Common? They’re Co-Sponsoring Nevada’s Reasonable Childhood Independence Bill

Nevada State Senator Dallas Harris Nevada Assemblywoman Alexis Hansen Let Grow's goal of making it easy, normal and legal to give kids some confidence-building independence is getting a big boost...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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“Bean Dad” Gets a Visit from Child Protective Services: Is that Good?

You may recall that last month, a comedian/musician named John Roderick became known all over the Western World (or at least Twitter) as "Bean Dad," thanks to his tweets about making his...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Mom Who Left Kids, 10 and 2, Alone at Motel While She Worked Her Evening Shift at a Pizza Shop is Jailed. Great.

TREATING DESPERATION AND POVERTY AS CRIMES MAKES LIFE BETTER FOR NO ONE. An Ohio mom has been arrested for leaving her kids, a 10-year-old and a two-year-old, in a motel room while...
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By Let Grow

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Future-Proofing Our Kids

When engineers build something expensive and important, they try to “future-proof” it. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, future-proofing means “to design software, a computer, etc. so that it can still...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Child Psychologist John Piacentini on How Parents and Teachers Can Help Anxious Kids Stop Avoiding Discomfort, Before the Cycle Bakes Itself In

Childhood anxiety and depression are on the rise. What could bring them back down? Let Grow's Lenore Skenazy Zoomed with Dr. John Piacentini, a leading child and adolescent psychologist and...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Second Thoughts on Keeping Kids Safe by Never Letting Them Out of Our Sight — and the Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger

It goes without saying that no one wants a child to be hurt, ever. Sometimes, though, it seems as if we believe that with enough child-surveillance, parent-surveillance, blaming, shaming, investigating...
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By Let Grow

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How to nurture kids’ curiosity

Recently, a journalist asked Let Grow: How can we foster our children's desire to learn things on their own -- not just for a class? Our response: School as we...
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By Vanessa Elias

Read Time: 5 minutes

Are You Raising Kids in Captivity, then Expecting Them to Survive in the Wild?

Wild animals in captivity quickly habituate to human care. Living a sheltered life, they don't learn critical survival skills. They show signs of psychological distress that will sound very familiar...
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By Let Grow

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Carjacker Steals Car with Kid in It, Returns to Chew Out Mom

Drives Off Again, Child-Free Yet another guy screamed at a mom for letting her kid wait in the car while she ran in to get a gallon of milk –...
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