Article Category: News

By Let Grow

Read Time: 5 minutes

He Watched His Friend Hauled Off to Jail After Letting His Kid, 7, Walk Around the Block. Then Keith Kaplan Did Something Big

Keith Kaplan served as a Township Councilman in Teaneck, NJ, for four and a half years. Just before his term ended this January, he sponsored a Reasonable Childhood Independence bill...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills Update

Let Grow's goal is to make it easy, normal and legal to give kids some old-fashioned independence. When it comes to that "legal" part, we help states pass Reasonable Childhood...
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By Let Grow

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High School Students: Win a Scholarship! Enter Let Grow’s “Think for Yourself” Essay Contest

Every year, Let Grow sponsors the Think for Yourself High School Essay Contest -- and awards $8000 in scholarships to high school juniors or seniors to use for college or...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Erika Christakis: In Defense of Sleepovers

Erika Christakis, early childhood expert and author of The Importance of Being Little, NAILS IT in her Atlantic essay on sleepovers. Noting that sleepovers have gone from age-old activity to yet another thing...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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What Do Parents in The Happiest Country in the World Do that We Don’t?

Just loved this snappy piece on the CNBC website, "I'm a psychology expert in Finland, the No. 1 happiest country in the world -- here are 3 things we never...
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By LetGrowGuest

Read Time: 6 minutes

50 Kid Things to Do That Somehow Do NOT Require a Screen!

Today's wonderful and kinda wacky essay is by Terry Heick, who wrote it for the TeachThoughtPD blog. TeachThought PD helps educators and schools better prepare students for the modern world through inquiry-focused...
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By LetGrowGuest

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A Mother’s Influence

A letter of love that speaks for itself: Dear Let Grow, When my mom passed away last month, my brother, sister, and I spent a lot of time thinking of...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Talking to Strangers

What a fantastic study: Research just published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that when people are prompted to talk to a stranger, surprising things happen: They start...
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By Let Grow

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The Let Grow 2024 Resolution: 10 Weeks to a Super-Independent Kid!

Most of us remember playing outside as kids, wandering around -- maybe even getting ourselves some candy. Before dinner! It may seem impossible to give that joy and independence to...
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By Let Grow

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KQED: “Today’s 18-year-olds are like the 12-year-olds from a decade ago.”

Wonder why kids -- yours, ours, everyone's -- often seem easily flummoxed, discouraged, and young for their age? Or passive? Or just plain anxious? This blockbuster report by Holly Korbey...
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By Let Grow

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Let Grow Takes a Look at Crime Statistics

Don't let fear rule your parenting. These common sense crime statistics show the world is safer for kids than it's been in decades.
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By Let Grow

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Pre-Schoolers and “The Epic Stick”

Lesley University in Boston REALLY gets how much kids get out of free time, free play -- and sticks. Listen to what Dana Frantz Bentley, a Lesley professor of early...
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