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    How Kids Learn to Handle Jerks, and an Elegant Example

    June 5, 2024

    It is DELIGHTFUL to play when no one is being a jerk. It is EDUCATIONAL to play when someone is.…

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    Help! I’ve Become a Helicopter Parent!

    May 31, 2024

    This is far from the only mom I’ve heard from who grew up Free-Range — and happy about it –…

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    How a Little Independence Dramatically Changed My Patient, Age 11, Who Has Autism

    May 24, 2024

    I’m hoping this note a Florida occupational therapist sent to Let Grow could change some lives!  Good Morning! My name…

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    When You’re The Answer to a Jeopardy Clue

    May 13, 2024

    The texts started coming thick and fast on Friday: “You’re a clue on Jeopardy!” “This is the big time!” “What…

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    U Michigan Researcher Sarah Clark: Only 8% of 18 Year Olds Can Schedule a Doctor’s Appointment

    May 9, 2024

    This is the testimony researcher Sarah Clark gave last week in support of Let Grow’s “Reasonable Childhood Indepndence” law in…

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    I Let My Kids Go to the Library Without Me

    April 25, 2024

    I remember loving the library like a second, more-exciting home. The children’s room was fun, but the Junior High Room?…

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    Jon Haidt Inspired Me to Let My Kid Walk Home from School. And Then —

    April 2, 2024

    After hearing a talk by Let Grow Co-Founder Jonathan Haidt at the Grace Church School in Manhattan, Larissa Romans did…

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    Real World Stats About the Odds of Your Kid Being Kidnapped…and Everything Else!

    March 19, 2024

    Putting Parental Fears in Perspective Kidnapping remains one of the top 3 fears of American parents despite its (thank God!)…

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    Jon Haidt Says Don’t Just Take Away Kids’ Phones, Give Them Independence!

    March 14, 2024

    In his blockbuster Atlantic piece out today, “The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood,” my Let Grow Co-founder Jonathan Haidt says our…

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    What Age Would You Let Your Child Go to a Different Aisle at the Store?

    March 5, 2024

    The University of Michigan survey that came out in the fall had all sorts of shocking stats: The majority of…

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