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…

It’s been 12 years since Free-Range Kids was published. In honor of the new edition, which just came out, I…

The updated and expanded second edition of  Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow  will…

A small, totally unscientific poll I ran on Twitter found that, of about 350 parents, 55% said that at some…