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By Lenore Skenazy

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Peter Gray on NPR Today: Constant Adult Supervision is Destroying Kids’ Mental Health

This morning, the very popular New York City radio host Brian Lehrer interviewed Let Grow Co-founder Peter Gray on WNYC, New York's NPR station. You can listen here. Lehrer is...
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By Let Grow

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IT’S LEGAL FOR KIDS TO PLAY OUTSIDE IN VIRGINIA!

Hallelujah! Children in Virginia can now play outside without their parents getting investigated for neglect. Sunday night, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed what is colloquially called the “Reasonable Childhood Independence” bill,...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

She Let Her 9-Year-Old Walk Across Central Park without An Adult

A nervous mom finally gave her son the freedom he wanted -- that she'd pretty much wanted for him, too. But it took a little push from me -- And...
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By Let Grow

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Discovery Ridge Elementary

BACKGROUND Students at Discovery Ridge Elementary in O’Fallon, Missouri, were tattling and fighting more than they did before COVID and expecting the adults to soothe them. P.E. Teacher Chris Sevier...
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By Let Grow

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KQED: “Today’s 18-year-olds are like the 12-year-olds from a decade ago.”

Wonder why kids -- yours, ours, everyone's -- often seem easily flummoxed, discouraged, and young for their age? Or passive? Or just plain anxious? This blockbuster report by Holly Korbey...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 7 minutes

Let Grow Takes a Look at Crime Statistics

Don't let fear rule your parenting. These common sense crime statistics show the world is safer for kids than it's been in decades.
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Save The Sleepover!

Sleeping bags and tents outside? Pillows and blankets inside? Either way, there is something thrilling and fulfilling about a sleepover. It's like a playdate on steroids! (Though...perhaps that shouldn't be...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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It’s Out There, Kids — Go Find It

The drive to play is in all kids. So is another drive, less often discussed: The drive to explore. Without that drive, kids would be stuck simply waiting for someone...
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By Let Grow

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Teachers: Press the Re-Set Button Now! You Can Prime Students for a Much Better School Year Ahead

To state the obvious: This school year was not easy. If BEFORE the pandemic kids were passive, anxious and depressed, this year they were whatever the word is for passive,...
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By Let Grow

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A Student Mental Health Freebie

This month is focused on the same problem that parents, teachers and psychologists have been focusing on for about two years now: Mental health -- especially kids'. The boy above...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

Colorado Kids Can Legally Play Outside!

“We certainly don’t want parents getting in trouble because their kids were playing on the playground,” said Colorado Gov. Jared Polis yesterday.  (See video below!) And with that, he signed...
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By Let Grow

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Colorado Legislature Passes “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Law!

IT'S UNANIMOUS! Colorado kids -- put on your sneakers. Thanks to your state legislators (and perhaps a little encouragement from Let Grow), you can play outside, stay home alone a...
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