IT'S UNANIMOUS! Colorado kids -- put on your sneakers. Thanks to your state legislators (and perhaps a little encouragement from Let Grow), you can play outside, stay home alone a...
Next Week Let Grow Meets with The Surgeon General!
For real. Thursday, Let Grow and the Surgeon General will be connecting. Here's why: At the end of 2021, the General put out a report on Protecting Youth Mental Health....
A Doctor Pleads: “Let Kids Play Outside Unsupervised”
A family doctor, worried about rising childhood anxiety and depression, wants his kids -- and all kids -- to be able to play outside, unsupervised, without this causing any legal...
I was always a reader. I spent my childhood pretending to be Lucy Pevensie and Jo March and Anne Shirley Cuthbert and Laura Ingalls and about a million other characters....
How Realistic is the Child Protective System in “The School for Good Mothers”?
If you're reading “The School for Good Mothers,” by Jessamine Chan, you may find yourself pausing to shake your fist, gnash your teeth -- and check on your kids. This...
Our Twitter poll last week asked those born BEFORE 1982 and those born AFTER to tell us what age they were first allowed outside to do things like walk to...
Let’s Make 2022 The Year of The Independent Child!
This year, parents in three states could get the biggest gift of all: the right to let their kids walk, play outside, or stay home alone for a bit, without...
“A Miracle!” 6-Year-Old Walks Home from School by Self
First off, up: Something got screwed up at the Holy Child School in Calgary last week. A coughing first grader was told by his teacher that, thanks to his Covid...
Daniel Kish is a teacher, traveler, and a fierce champion of childhood independence…who went blind as a baby. Then he started making clicking sounds and listening to the echoes bouncing...
Dear Parents: Here’s a Child Danger You Didn’t Notice but You Should, Or ELSE!
If you're wondering why parenting seems so fraught, look no further than the child safety industrial complex. I just Googled, "Child Hidden Dangers 2021" (I'm sure there are some for...
My Daughter’s Highlight of 2021: Walking Home without Me
This post comes to us from Erica Schoder. Iowa-native Erica runs a think tank in Washington, DC, from her ex-pat base in Munich, Germany, where she lives with her partner...
The Top 10 Best and Worst Let Grow Moments of 2021
In a crazy year, some crazy stories were crazier than others. You can SAVE CHILDHOOD INDEPENDENCE with a year-end donation to Let Grow. Click here! THE TOP FIVE WORST LET...
