By Sara

Read Time: 4 minutes

It’s Not Enough to Teach Kids How to Be Independent If We Don’t Let Them Put it into Practice 

Yes, we can teach our kids how to be independent. But then we have to actually step back and let them put it into practice.
By Kate Sundquist

Read Time: 6 minutes

Movement Breaks Should Not Be a Substitute for Recess

This mom has seen recess shrink at her son's school, and she believes movements breaks should never be a substitution for recess.
By Jodi Maurici

Read Time: 4 minutes

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...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

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...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

What Is Future-Proofing?

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...
By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 4 minutes

How Can I Help My Anxious Child?

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...