I am so psyched to repost this Substack piece by my friend and fellow Let Grow Board Member, Samantha Boardman.…
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The worry that our kids will die the second they step outside feels innate, but it has been cultivated by…
Are daily photos from overnight camp a big issue? Probably not the biggest. But they are part of a culture…
Would you leave your sleeping child in a hotel room with a baby monitor and go eat at a nearby…
We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes my Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies…
Once again, friends, I. MUST. RANT. Why? I — just heard from a mom trying to get two other families…
Folks — This is a topic that sometimes comes up and is indicative of our culture’s worst-first thinking: The idea…
This note about “news junkies” comes from a longtime friend of Free-Range Kids, Donald Christensen. Donald is a draftsman living…
Kids need to climb trees, jump off things, and ride their bikes fast. That’s what the Canadian Paediatric Society is…
Here’s a little excerpt from the interview Katie Kimball, host of the Healthy Parenting Handbook Podcast, did with me. The…