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    What If Kids Had Four Recesses a Day?

    December 29, 2019

    Kids deserve — and learn better with — MORE recess. The LiiNK program in Texas gives kids four recesses a…

    One Mom Has Actually Figured Out How Not to Cave When Her Kids Whine, “I’m Bored!”

    December 27, 2019

    A genius mom gives a truly useful plan for how to resist becoming the entertainment center when the kids whine…

    We Tell Kids to Stand Up for Themselves — Then We Treat Them Like Babies

    December 27, 2019

    Intense blog post by a writer who still remembers the day when she was 13 and set up an appointment…

    Free-Ranging is for Kids with Special Needs, Too

    December 23, 2019

    The mom of a son with autism who didn’t speak till age 5 started letting him walk to the library…

    The 12 Worst, Best, and Craziest Parenting Moments of 2019…

    December 22, 2019

    …are over at Let Grow. Just click here! Some you’ll remember, some you may not have heard. (Like the one…

    Bronx Girl’s Kidnapping Was a Hoax — as Some Had Suspected (and Hoped!) All Along

    December 18, 2019

    The 16-year-old kidnapped from he mother’s side on a Bronx street Monday has admitted it was a hoax. A few…

    It Is Hard to Be a 12-Year-Old Boy Today. One Kid’s Mom Still Follows Behind Him in a Car As He Walks to School

    December 12, 2019

    Even if you want your kids to Free-Range, that doesn’t mean the other parents are ready…as the mom of a…

    “Movement Breaks” are All The Rage at School — But They Don’t Make Up for Lost Recess Time

    December 9, 2019

    A mom is at her wit’s end when her son’s super-brief, in-class, stand-next-to-your-desk “movement breaks” leave him more wound up…

    White Vans are NOT Coming to Kidnap, Traffic, or Sell Your Kids for Body Parts (Despite What You Read on Facebook)

    December 6, 2019

    We are in the throes of another wave of White Van fever. (Not the shoes! The vehicles.) Even the Mayor…

    Depressed, Anxious Teens Told to Start Spending MORE Time on Social Media

    December 3, 2019

    Slinking away from Instagram is not so different from locking yourself in your room — or so today’s shrinks are…

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