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If you’re giving your kids more boredom, Let Grow salutes you! Kids need to explore, play, even skin their knee to build confidence and resilience. We’ve got tons of free resources to make it easy to step back. Check us out!

Together, Welly and Let Grow are encouraging families to embrace the moments when kids are free to explore, create, solve problems, and discover what they’re capable of because that’s where confidence, resilience, and independence grow.

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Kids Need Real Life To Prepare For Real Life

How Boredom Feeds Independence

Lenore Skenazy speaks at SESSION 2 at TED 2025: Humanity Reimagined. April 7-11, 2025, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

If we want strong kids, we can’t bubble-wrap their childhood. Let them live it. Lenore Skenazy’s main stage TED Talk tells us why.

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Ignoring Kids Can Be Good for Them

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A New York Times article told parents to ignore their kids more! Why? Kids need boredom and free time, and parents need a break!

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Boredom Motivates Kids to Find Something to Do

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What happens when kids have the time and space to be bored? This 12-year-old discovered the motivation to do something amazing.

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The Let Grow Experience: The Ortwein Elementary Story

Watch students at Ortwein Elementary share the magic of The Let Grow Experience and watch as they grow confident, capable, and independent right before your eyes!