“Lenore, did you say you don’t CARE about kids and phones?” That’s what a child psychologist just emailed me. MY…
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The situation was this: A 6-year-old rode off on his bike and stayed out for two hours, without his parents…
If you want to be out-of-your-mind inspired, check out this huge Time Magazine profile of The Balance Project – “a parent-run nonprofit…
I am so psyched to repost this Substack piece by my friend and fellow Let Grow Board Member, Samantha Boardman.…
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…