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NewsA 7-Year-Old Girl Gets Lost on Her Way to School in the Big City, But She Knows What to Do!
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 …
NewsWhat Real-World Skills Do Kids Get From Halloween? Tell us!
Remember -- this is the one day of the year when kids get to practice being adults! They: 1 - Dress up for work. 2 …
NewsFour Halloween Facts to Fight Fears
The scariest thing about Halloween is how we have turned an age-old night of kids running around gathering candy and courage, into an adult-run, store-bought, …
NewsA Kidnapper at Recess? Not So Fast
When an 8-year-old girl Atlanta said that she had been almost abducted at school by a man who grabbed her off the slide at recess …
NewsA Young Man Thanks the Teachers Who Didn’t Destroy His Fantasy World
From Let Grow's youth correspondent, college freshman Dakota Antelman, comes this story of the value of non-interference. If you ever find yourself trying to explain …
NewsRule of Thumb: A Child’s Age Should Equal the Number of Hours They Train in a Sport Each Week
A New York Times article states it starkly: Too many children are risking injuries, even lifelong health problems, because they practice too intensively in a …
A 7-Year-Old Girl Gets Lost on Her Way to School in the Big City, But She Knows What to Do!
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 …
What Real-World Skills Do Kids Get From Halloween? Tell us!
Remember -- this is the one day of the year when kids get to practice being adults! They: 1 - Dress up for work. 2 …
Four Halloween Facts to Fight Fears
The scariest thing about Halloween is how we have turned an age-old night of kids running around gathering candy and courage, into an adult-run, store-bought, …
A Kidnapper at Recess? Not So Fast
When an 8-year-old girl Atlanta said that she had been almost abducted at school by a man who grabbed her off the slide at recess …
A Young Man Thanks the Teachers Who Didn’t Destroy His Fantasy World
From Let Grow's youth correspondent, college freshman Dakota Antelman, comes this story of the value of non-interference. If you ever find yourself trying to explain …
Rule of Thumb: A Child’s Age Should Equal the Number of Hours They Train in a Sport Each Week
A New York Times article states it starkly: Too many children are risking injuries, even lifelong health problems, because they practice too intensively in a …