Article Category: Parenting

To be a kid today means to grow up in a culture constantly underestimating your creativity, resilience, gumption, and especially: your curiosity. The hallmark of our era is the mistaken...

Readers -- We are working to create a list of camps (day camps and overnight) that do not allow phones. If you know of any, please write the camp name/city/state...

This post comes from Jeff Nelligan, author of  Four Lessons from My Three Sons - How You Can Raise Resilient Kids, now in its second edition. Calling All Pirates: My two...

Readers -- Here's a guest post that makes us happy, happy, happy. (And a little hungry.) Krista Whipple lives with her husband and three children in Southern Utah. She is...

Welcome to the Fourth Annual LET GROW INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE! We want to see photos and videos of kids doing something new, on their own. Biking, baking, hiking, sawing, mowing, sewing,...

Vanessa Elias is a longtime friend of Let Grow, a proponent of play, a parenting coach at Thrive with a Guide, and also -- because of all these -- a...

It is always hard to deal with the media's cheapest trick: hypothesizing. You see it every September when a child is dropped off at the wrong bus stop somewhere in...

 Independence Day will be especially sweet for families in Virginia, Connecticut, and Illinois this year. “The law goes into effect on July 1 and I’m really excited,” said Evelyn Hackel,...

Over at our Raising Independent Kids Facebook group (join here), parents find a non-blaming/shaming/shrieking/freaking/911-calling environment to ask questions about all sorts of childhood independence issues. Here's one that probably resonates....

Today's post comes from Kerala Taylor in Portland, Ore. An expanded version originally appeared on Medium. A lot of moms -- and dads -- will relate. Let's hear any hacks you've...

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...