Archive | 2019

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Have Your Kid Get Change for a $5 Bill

Looking for a fun, easy first step you might want to try with your budding Free-Range / Let Grow kid? A dad explains the $5 challenge and other independence-building ideas here. If you have some of your own, cool “kid challenges” to share there, please do!

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Is It Time for a Mud Lab?

If your answer is, “Um…maybe?” check out the inspiration over at Let Grow, drawn from a book called Backyard Adventure: 51 Free-Play Activities, by Amanda Thomsen. Dirt is good!

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Let Grow Fathers!

Fatherly interivewed six dads trying to give their kids more freedom. Read one of them at Let Grow — click here –  and tell us about your journey as a Let Grow Dad!

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The Big Parental Fears Preventing Kids from Playing

The Fear that Children Will Fall Behind if Not More or Less Constantly in Adult-Directed Activities The Fear that Children Who Are Not Supervised Are in Physical Danger The Fear of Being Accused of Neglect if the Child is Allowed Some Freedom Let Grow co-founder Dr. Peter Gray discusses them in a Psychology Today blog. […]

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