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No, A Lady Was Not Just Almost Sex-Trafficked by an Uber Driver at the Tampa Airport

By Lenore Skenazy - 02/21/2019 - 6 minute read

One of our roles at Let Grow is to act as a reality check. When urban myths about stranger danger spread far and wide, we …

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A Stranger Came Up and Offered to Hold My Baby While My Other Kids Were Screaming at a Restaurant. And THEN…

By Lenore Skenazy - 08/29/2018 - 4 minute read

Sharla from Washington State shares this cautionary tale: . Today I went to lunch with my kids after picking up a few items from Target. …

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How Dare the News Report This Non-Event as an “Attempted Abduction at Rest Stop”?

By Lenore Skenazy - 06/08/2018 - 4 minute read

The headline is terrifying: Mother gives warning after attempted abduction at rest stop And yet the story is anything but. See if you feel the …

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Kids in Utah — Go Outside and Play, Starting TODAY!

By Lenore Skenazy - 05/08/2018 - 3 minute read

Today the Utah Free-Range Parenting Law takes effect. Parents there are guaranteed that no one will be able to arrest or investigate them for the …

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No, Facebook Mom, Your Child Was Not About to Be Sex Trafficked from the Store

By Lenore Skenazy - 12/16/2017 - 5 minute read

The New Fear of Sex Traffickers Echoes a Medieval Fear of Child Murderers   They keep on coming, those stories on Facebook by moms that …

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Close Encounters of the Sex-Trafficking-Abductors Kind

By Lenore Skenazy - 09/22/2017 - 6 minute read

These "close encounters" with near sex-traffickers are like alien abductions. They are shared wildly -- gleefully -- by people seemingly thrilled to know this horrible …

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