CROWDSOURCE THIS, PLEASE! We want to build a great list of ideas of things kids under age 13 can do on their own. Teachers doing the Let Grow Project will hand this list to their students! MORE IDEAS NEEDED!!! Please add them over at Let Grow! Photo at Unsplash by @kandebonfim
Around the world, kids are allowed — and expected — to spend some of their time on their own, having fun and helping out the family. It’s only America where we squelch this normal state of affairs by declaring it “dangerous.” Join the de-squelching at Let Grow! Photo from Unsplash @amansks91
A mom gushes about how glad she is that she has GPSed her kids, 6 and 8, because now she can know where they are every second, allowing her, she says, to relax. This need to know is completely new, and obviously driven by tech. How does it change parenting, and childhood? Join the discussion […]
Good Morning America took the fabulous Kim Brooks piece examining why we criminalize parents for letting their kids wait briefly — and safely — in the car and turned it into YET ANOTHER cautionary tale about kids in danger. Join the grrrrr-ing over at Let Grrrrrrrrrrrow.
Yes. And we discuss it over at Let Grow. It is a project you and your kids can do, even starting today! If and when you do, please let us know how it goes!
If it’s MORE dangerous to drive your kid to the mall than to have ’em wait in the car while you pick up a package, why do we arrest parents who do the latter and not the former? Kim Brooks — arrested for letting her 4-year-old wait in the car for 5 minutes — just […]
Dana Blumberg started a Chicago-land Free-Range Facebook page years ago, so she wouldn’t feel alone when questioning the culture of overprotection. This week, she went on TV to explain. Watch her at Let Grow.org!
NPR has noticed the same thing we have: When we raise kids with zero risk, ironically it doesn’t reassure them. It makes everything start seeming daunting and risky. That’s anxiety producing! Join the mulling over at Let Grow.
Parents and kids were recruited for a “study” that turned out to be sort of the opposite. IT IS FANTASTIC! See it and talk about over at Let Grow!
Why are kids quitting soccer in such numbers? The New York Times discusses it and so do we — at Let Grow!
