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    Librarian Tells Mom She Broke The Law By Letting Son Browse for 6 Minutes, Unattended

    March 27, 2023

    Let Grow is working to pass a Reasonable Childhood Independence bill in Connecticut. We asked citizens there to write letters in support…

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    When Kids’ Independence Goes Down, Their Mental Health Issues Go Up: Journal of Pediatrics

    March 23, 2023

    An article about to be published in the the Journal of Pediatrics is titled, “Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of…

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    FLACO THE FIRST FREE-RANGE KIDS MASCOT: Escaped Owl Flies in the Face of Overprotection

    March 15, 2023

    Just one month ago, Flaco the owl was sprung from New York’s Central Park Zoo. Until then the Eurasian Eagle…

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    NJ Dad Arrested After Letting His Child Walk Outside — And a Happy Ending!

    March 10, 2023

    This fall, just as Keith Kaplan was finishing up his first term as a Teaneck, NJ, Town Councilman, he proposed…

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    Library Sign: “Police May Be Called if a Child Under 15 Is Not Accompanied by an Adult”

    February 26, 2023

    A reader in Corpus Christi sent us this sign from her local library. It’s kind of hard to read, thanks…

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    Overprotected Kids Die Younger?

    February 16, 2023

    A very long study of about 1000 adults born in the ’50s and ’60s looked at how they were raised,…

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    OFF MESSAGE: My Spongy Valentine

    February 12, 2023

    Readers: What moves me other than trying to give some trust back to a country consumed by catastrophizing, especially when…

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    Who Decides When Kids are Old Enough to Walk to Dunkin’ Donuts?

    January 31, 2023

    A mom in Killingly, Conn., wrote to us a few months ago to tell us the story of Super Bowl…

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    A Full-Throttled Defense of Sleepovers!

    January 26, 2023

    Erika Christakis, early childhood expert and author of The Importance of Being Little, NAILS IT in her Atlantic essay on…

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    50 Things Even Digital Kids Might Love to Do Outside

    January 17, 2023

    Yes — we’ve got for you a simple, straightforward, LONG LIST of activities that don’t require a screen and can…

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