A Girl, 12, Allowed to Roam in a City of 2 Million
By Dixie Dillon Lane Would you let your 11-year-old daughter wander alone through a foreign city for hours at a time without a cell phone? My mother let her daughter....
Well, Golllly! “Free-Range Parenting is NOT Crazy”
Take a look at this lovely little clip, below, from FoxNews last week. While the caption on screen says, "Critics Warn of Parenting Style's Possible Consequences," that's not the direction...
The Sorrow and the Fear: Athena Strand’s Murder, and Us
Sorrow and anger rage in our hearts. A child has been murdered. Athena Strand, 7, was abducted and murdered last week in her Texas town of Paradise. (The irony hurts,...
Thank You CBS Mornings and Amazon Books for Recommending Free-Range Kids!
What a thrill to see Sarah Gelman of Amazon Books recommending five books for parents -- and one of them is Free-Range Kids: How to Let Go and Let Grow...
Thoughts on the Mom Handcuffed for Having Son, 8, Walk Half a Mile Home
Perhaps you have already heard about Heather Wallace, a Texas mom of three, arrested for having her son walk home half a mile after he was bothering his younger brothers...
Bill Maher on Let Grow’s “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Law
Bill Maher is a fan! Here he is, chatting with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, about the "Reasonable Childhood Independence" law the governor signed this year -- a law Let Grow...
Samantha Boardman: Many Parents are Making One Big Mistake, Out of Love
Samantha Boardman is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, frequent guest on The Today Show, and author of the practical, helpful and funny book, Everyday Vitality. On top of...
The Let Grow Independence Challenge Essay Contest asked parents to share a story of a time they let go -- even reluctantly -- because they knew their kids were ready for...
A Girl in China Cries About Homework and It Resonates Around the World
This little girl in China is going viral, thanks to her desperation for some time off from homework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEyVqA-DVwg Poignant! Powerful! Over here, we appreciate this video...and hope it was...
Miriam Bradford is one of the two runner-up winners of the Let Grow Independence Challenge Essay Contest for Parents. We asked folks to tell us how they got up the guts...
What are kids today desperate for? The graph says it all: It's from an elementary school in a middle class neighborhood that offers all sorts of afterschool activities -- music,...
Ashley Scroggins is one of the two runner-up winners of the Let Grow Independence Challenge Essay Contest for Parents. We asked folks to tell us how they got up the...
