Articles Tagged: Let Grow Project

By Sarah Vanderkooy

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Make Mini Pies Using Jar Lids

Mini pies are a genius baking project for kids. All you need is canning lids and some basic pie ingredients, and you'll be ready to create as many different flavors...
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By Let Grow

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Social-Emotional Learning Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Social-emotional learning is an essential part of today's schools and classrooms. This is for good reason, too. Social-emotional learning has been shown time and time again to be essential for...
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This DIY Fairy Garden Is the Perfect Gardening Project for Kids

This DIY fairy garden is easy for kids to do on their own. You just need a birdbath, plants, and DIY fairy furniture you make out of sticks.
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12 Amazing Things Kids Can Do with Sticks

If you've ever gone on a nature walk with a kid, you know that they love to pick up stuff along the way. In fact, you're likely to return with...
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By Let Grow

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Learn How to Make Beeswax Food Wraps

Learn how to make beeswax wraps using just a few supplies. This is a great project kids can do on their own, and it's a good way to save on...
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By Let Grow

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7 DIY Snow Experiments Kids Can Do on Their Own

Looking for DIY snow experiments? Get a recipe for making snow, try your hand at snow ice cream, and even learn how to make your own DIY snow globe.
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By Let Grow

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You Can Have Cake in 2 Minutes with This Mug Cake Recipe

You'll have instant access to cake with this mug cake recipe. Kids cake make this recipe completely on their own, and it came from 9-year-old, Lauren.
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Be Inspired By This Let Grow Project Success Story

When third grade teacher Gary Karlson heard about the Let Grow Project, he saw it as a way to make an important lesson meaningful at last. "For years we put...
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By Jodi Maurici

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How One Teacher Lowered Student Anxiety With The Let Grow Project

Last fall I was excited to start another promising school year with my 240 seventh grade health education students. However, I was confronted by an array of challenges I had...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Jonathan Haidt Lets His 9-Year-Old Daughter Walk to School Alone for the First Time

Prof. Jonathan Haidt, co-author of "The Coddling of the American Mind" and one of the three people who joined me in founding Let Grow, posted that lovely Tweet last Wednesday....
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By Lenore Skenazy

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A Let Grow Project Success Story: Patchogue-Medford Schools

Michael Hynes, superintendent of Patchogue-Medford Schools in Long Island, believes in the Let Grow Project. All seven elementary schools in his district participate, with incredible results. Soon, the middle schools...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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The Shockingly Simple Way to Stop Helicopter Parenting

Even if you want to stop worrying about your child's safety any time they are beyond the front lawn (or on it!), we live in a culture driving us nuts...
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