A few years back, a parent on our Raising Independent Kids FB Group, wrote: I can't with the Halloween scare tactics. One local urgent care center is offering to x-ray...
At Birch Wathen Lenox, The Kids are Waving Goodbye to their Comfort Zones
Take your pick: Covid. Phones. The culture of fear. The crazy world we live in. No matter what is to blame, something has been sapping kids of their can-do spirit....
A front-page article in The Wall Street Journal described the difficulty – even agony – some parents are feeling when their kids go off to college and are harder to...
“What if the ways in which we are parenting are making life harder on our kids and harder on us? What if by doing less, parents would foster better outcomes for...
The New York Times printed some surprising advice this weekend: “Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often.” At Let Grow, we agree! In a culture that demands we spend ever...
We’re experiencing an uptick in parents asking us, "How can I help my anxious child?" That’s not surprising, considering the stats: According to one study, nearly a third of adolescents...
What child psychologist and researcher Tovah Klein saw in her visits to special Chinese schools where kids are given a vast amount of time and space for free play blew...
Surgeon General Finds Parents Overwhelmed. We Have a Solution.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory announcing something most of us suspected: Parenting is hard. To ease the pain – parents are woefully lonely, and about half report...
Russ Perry lets his daughter do something that, according to this University of Michigan/CS Mott poll, most parents of 8-year-olds wouldn’t dream of. When not defying cultural norms, Russ is...
Child Protective Services: Close The Case on Kirstie Allsopp!
The big news in Britain is that TV personality Kirstie Allsopp let her 15-year-old go on a 3-week train trip around Europe with a friend, 16. Kirstie then published a...
The moment a baby is born, a parent is too. There is suddenly a new (screaming) person in the world. But just as suddenly, there’s a new you, too. (Also...
