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Let Grow Communities

Let Grow Communities

Let Grow’s mission is to make it easy, normal, and legal to give kids the independence they need.

We make it easy with free materials for parents and schools.

We make it legal by supporting state laws that let parents decide when their kids are ready for independence.

Making it normal takes all of us—neighbors, schools, and communities working together to give kids room to grow. People across America are working to make that happen, many inspired by the “4 New Norms” in our co-founder Jonathan Haidt’s bestseller, The Anxious Generation. Norm #4: more independence, responsibility, and free play for kids.

At Let Grow, we’re empowering people to create the kind of community where kids play outside, get ice cream, walk to school — and parents support each other. No one assumes an unsupervised kid is automatically in danger.

Our Community Toolkit offers practical steps and resources to support this shift, helping parents connect and push back on today’s culture of overprotection.

We’re so glad you’re here. And your kids will be glad, too!

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Let Grow Communities

Because It Takes a Village to Let Kids Grow

Independence Starts at Home. Strength Grows in Community.

Community Toolkit

Everything you need to help kids build independence — right in your community. Not a step-by-step, one-size-fits-all prescription, but a buffet to browse and then choose what looks good.

Inside you’ll find:

  • Categorized and searchable files, links, and materials to use, modify, or not.
  • Outreach tools like email templates, social posts, and flyers if you're not sure what to say.
  • Links to other sites and organizations, because why reinvent the wheel?
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Share Your Story

Have you seen the power of independence in your neighborhood? We’d love to hear about it!

Why share?

  • Inspire others to give kids more freedom and confidence.
  • Celebrate your successes with a supportive community.
  • Be featured in our Community Success Stories and help spread the Let Grow message.
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Community Success Stories

Discover how neighborhoods are embracing independence — and seeing incredible results.

“It gave the community a chance to connect with each other, as well as a new vernacular: ‘That’s a Let Grow kid.’ Now we are a community that better understands the very real risks of overprotecting our kids. Our town – and our kids – are stronger for it.

Vanessa Elias

“My group, Champions For Childhood, is picking up steam…FAST. Reception at our community event was mindblowingly positive.”

Jill S.

She has been more confident and careful than I expected.

Kat, Parent of 2 year old, Colorado

Hello group! Thank you for sharing your ideas and helping to reframe my thoughts to see my kids as capable humans!

Parent, Social Media

Thank you Let Grow for all you do to promote independence. And to all my fellow parents, I love that we have the opportunity to cheer each other on and push ourselves as we give our children an abundance of opportunities to play and grow. What a beautiful process.

Parent, Social Media

Our Partnership With The Balance Project

The Balance Project helps families find a healthy, sustainable balance between screen time and real life in today’s world.

This Community Toolkit was inspired by the call for collective action in The Anxious Generation, and The Balance Project, an organization working to bring life + technology into harmony for kids, families and communities. TBP helps parents & communities work together “on the ground” to collectively support meaningful real-life experiences AND mindful technology usage.

They have communities across the country fueled by a proven process, along with tools, templates, training and a built-in support system of hundreds of parents, teachers and administrators like you — and can help you turn ideas into action based on their proven approach.

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