I live in New York City. It’s green enough for me. But when I saw the work of Sharon Danks, CEO/founder of Green Schoolyards America, it became obvious that most...
What can change your life for the better? Hope and a plan of action. That’s what you get in the book Everyday Vitality. It’s by Let Grow board member –...
Christmas Break Activities for Bored Kids & Harried Parents
Christmas break – winter break, Christmas vacation – whatever you call the upcoming school holiday, it’s great…until it isn’t. Even in 1951, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”...
Groundbreaking Yale Study Discovers Cure for “Helicopter Parenting”
When adults step back, kids step up. That’s the Let Grow motto. The only problem is: It’s hard to get adults to do that. Helicopter parenting has become pretty much...
I Thought I Had to Be Teaching My Kids All. The. Time.
This “Ah ha!”-filled post comes to us from Abigail Weidmer, a homeschool mom and nonprofit grants consultant in Billings, Montana. Her three kids range in age from 2 to 7:...
The case of Brittany Patterson has already become part of pop culture: A Georgia mom was arrested and handcuffed in front of her kids for the "crime" of not knowing...
Maybe you’ve heard us talking about the anxiety-busting, confidence-growing properties of The Let Grow Experience, but you’re wondering: What exactly is it? How does it work? Like this: Schools give...
Brittany Patterson had to take one of her four children to a medical appointment, and her youngest son, 10-year-old Soren, was going to come with them. This was a few...
We Couldn’t Find Our Kid for 15 Minutes – Now I’m Terrified!
I had a similar experience last week and have been pondering a similar question since then…The thought I keep coming back to is that maybe it's not inherently bad that...
How to Fight the Obsessive Fear of Unlikely Dangers
Inside Out 2 gave kids a way to picture anxiety. For parents, all you need is this classic Modern Love column, “A Marriage Stressed by Obsessions and Compulsions.” In it,...
You can’t find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when, and why that morphed into “intensive parenting” than this New York Times podcast from about...
Is there a path to success kids can take? Yes -- if they put on their sneakers. The more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults....
