You relate? Â Here’s TV producer Michael Peyton’s take on trying to hold it together while his kids are doing jumping jacks and band practice and his 4th grade son is “heading upstairs with a bag of yeast, a banana, and a plastic bag” for science class. Â Read Michael’s essay at Let Grow by […]
Click here and just go enjoy a wonderful, rangy, funny essay by middle school teacher Elizabeth Peyton. She confesses to having a hard time with all the tech: “I barely know how to navigate Google classroom. I deleted myself from the staff email group by accident, lost access to all my lesson plans, blamed my […]
It’s never too early! “Teach kids to embrace listening to different points of view,” writes Holly Korbey over at Let Grow. In these polarizing times, it can make a huge difference! Example:Â When Irshad Manji was 14, she asked “too many questions” during her Saturday religious school, and they kicked her out. Irshad, author of […]
Vanessa Peoples was at family picnic in Aurora, Colorado, when her toddler wandered off. She noticed him missing and ran after him, but not before a lady had scooped him up and dialed 911 to report a missing child – and bad mom. By the time the fallout from this total non-event was over, Vanessa […]
As horrible as I find banning books, the practice does have one thing going for it: Kids who may not be big-time readers seem to love them. In this extremely cool and original essay over at Let Grow today, Elizabeth Peyton, a middle school teacher, writes that: I’ve found that if I want to pique […]
Hi all! Let Grow’s Vice President for School Programs, Andrea Keith, has a new podcast about bringing our childhood independence initiatives to elementary and middle schools, via things like our Let Grow Project and Let Grow Play Club (both free free free!). In the first podcast, she talks to Dr. Michael Hynes, the superintendent who […]
If you’re wondering, “Can I get my child do to laundry?” the answer is usually yes, unless they are still in utero.  And if they need help — no shame there. Let Grow’s new Life Lessons video series presents: “How to Do Laundry at the Laundromat.†Video below. And click here to read the […]
Never grown anything that I can recall. But at Let Grow we have a very short explanation about growing “micro-greens” — a clever name for, basically, baby plants that you can harvest before they get bigger. It looks so easy even I — not only not a “green thumb” but basically a thumb-free person — […]
“Is there a way to stop always worrying my kids?” is the question I address in today’s “Ask Lenore” blog post, which begins: Short answer? No. Long answer? Noooooooooooooo. Read the rest here, by “brave” me. (Ha!) As I go on to say: No one is as self-directed, well-behaved, and uncomplicated as you think your […]
We’ve got a great piece over at Let Grow pointing out that when Baby Jessica fell down a well in 1987, a nation banded together. “But today,” writes Katy Anderson, the mom of 3 boys, “I can’t help but think there would be an immediate collective outcry of, ‘Where were the parents?!?’†Her piece is […]
