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“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...

Learn the value of loose parts play when you just let your kids go and figure it out on their own. All they need in a few parts to get...

I was standing at the top of a water slide at Water World, trying to muster the courage to go down. But the tunnel looked dark and the slide looked...

This recent police blotter item from Olmstead Falls, Ohio (population: 8,883), is everything that is cuckoo -- and kind and sane -- about our era. If you like it, share...

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...

For real. Thursday, Let Grow and the Surgeon General will be connecting. Here's why: At the end of 2021, the General put out a report on Protecting Youth Mental Health....

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 with...

How to create a Let Grow Community I live in one of the few towns in America determined to give kids a normal, old-fashioned, go-outside-and-play childhood. It’s not that we...

What My Kids Say About Their "Let Grow" Childhood, by Dan Emery I sometimes messed up as a dad. And part of seeing my kids (mostly) grown up is realizing...

A family doctor, worried about rising childhood anxiety and depression, wants his kids -- and all kids -- to be able to play outside, unsupervised, without this causing any legal...