Embrace Imperfection With a Wabi-Sabi Parenting Style
Alan Levinovitz is a professor of religion and science at James Madison University and the married dad of a 6-year-old who cuts her own tomatoes. I spoke to Alan about...
An Anthropologist Discusses the Benefits of Unstructured Play
This fantastic TEDx Talk by evolutionary anthropologist Dorsa Amir is music to our ears at Let Grow. Amir studied a modern foraging society in the Ecuadorean Amazon and made some...
The Bread-Milk-Butter Sesame Street Video Still Gets It Right
If you're old enough, you'll remember this classic Bread-Milk-Butter Sesame Street video. It's been responsible for an awful lot of earworms over the years, so be prepared. How old is...
Am I a Bad Parent If Don’t Like Playing With My Kids?
When our kids were toddlers my husband vowed he was going to write a book, "How to Play with Your Kids Without Getting off the Couch." It would be filled...
When engineers build something expensive and important, they try to "future-proof" it. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, future-proofing means "to design software, a computer, etc. so that it can still...
The New York Times certainly knows its readers' sweet spot. Check out this headline: "The Bad News about Helicopter Parenting: It Works." I've spent years fighting against the need to...
Trick-or-treating is something kids did safely on their own for decades. But society is morphing this delightful childhood tradition into "dangerous encounters with strangers." Every town seems determined to come...
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...
So many parents ask, "How can I help my anxious child?" It's not surprising, considering the statistics: According to one study, nearly a third of adolescents suffer from an anxiety...
