To fight bullying successfully, you first have to understand where it's coming from, writes Kevin Stinehart in eSchoolNews. Stinehart is a 4th grade teacher at a Title 1 (high poverty)...
Childhood Freedom in Action: Japan’s “My First Errand” TV Show
Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter from a Japanese newspaper. She moved to DC in 1999, but grew up in Japan and remembers freedom like you're about to see:...
There are about 100 Acton Children's Business Fairs a year By David Kirby Traditional approaches to teaching entrepreneurship too often become a boring exercise in classroom abstraction. Compare this to...
Embrace the mess, says mom of three curious kids Earlier this week we posted Neil deGrasse Tyson's video about how to not squash a kid's curiosity, which prompted Utah mom...
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Advice for Parents and Teachers
"Your job is less to INSTILL curiosity than to make sure you don't squash what is already there," says Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3ORQllJoA At Let Grow we agree so much...
Boy, 6, Saves Sister from Vicious Dog — and Many More Tales of Very Young Heroes
In a culture that won’t let some 8-year-olds play in their own yards, or get off the school bus and walk home without an adult (this is really common!) it...
A dad makes the case for more two-wheeled independence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98 What a powerful video. It makes painfully clear the contrast between kid-filled streets in The Netherlands and the empty streets...
Some countries are doing just that. But in America, a kid who fell off a slide was awarded $170,000. Germany is adding MORE RISK to its playgrounds. Some of its...
"Most of all -- HAVE FUN!" Halloween is the day America test-drives all the fears that it may adopt for the other 364 days of the year. Taken from a...
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