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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If you’re wondering if strangers and cars pose too great a threat to your child playing outside, this Let Grow post can point you to a fact-based handy reference guide.
What a great weekend to throw a chalk party. Inspiration over at Let Grow! And have a very happy day celebrating our over-arching goal: INDEPENDENCE!
It’s so great when a story goes viral that we can all cheer for. Here it is, at Let Grow. Cheer away!
When you hear that “Every hour a child is injured by a highchair!” you may think that means highchairs are about on par with bungee jumping. We’ve got an essay at Let Grow that puts it all in perspective. Check it out by clicking here!
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!
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!
The New York Post seems to have gone out of its way to present Free-Range Parenting as offbeat and dangerous. We discuss this common occurrence over at Let Grow. Please join us – click here!
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. We want to hear if you have overcome them! Join the chat at LetGrow!
School Administrator Magazine asked Let Grow to write about how giving kids more independence makes them less anxious. Here’s the article. And here’s where we’re discussing it, over at Let Grow! iscussing it, over at Let Grow!