The folks at Highlights are truly kind. But when kids write to them for advice, they don’t get out the…
Year: 2021
The other day I was interviewed by Maggie Rodriguez, host of the show Daytime, who confessed to parental anxiety –…
That’s not just this blog blowing its own horn. It’s The Guardian that’s doing the blowing. In a huge article…
Contrary to the predictions, many kids’ mental well-being went up, not down, early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the…
Starting Sunday, Let Grow will be accepting entries to its second annual Let Grow Independence Challenge! From Aug. 1 -7…
Drew Perkins is a thought leader in the world of education. He’s also the dad of two girls, 12 and…
Get your Let Grow Independence Kit by clicking here. It’s an at-home version of our popular Let Grow Project –…
As more states start to pass what we used to call “Free-Range Parenting” laws (and now call “Reasonable Childhood Independence”…
“When kids are trusted with free time to figure things out on their own, they start working on their very…
Izzy Kalman is a long-time school psychologist with iconoclastic ideas about how to help kids deal with bullying. Often, he…