Let’s go, America! We all know kids have the right to some independence, and parents should have the right to…
One reason parents/teachers/adults are spending so much time hovering over kids is that they are spending so much time hovering…
Readers, it is true: Sometimes, a sigh escapes. One observes the forces arrayed against kids being kids and the road…
The age that kids start playing — walking, biking, frolicking outside — should be up to the parents. But that’s…
SCORE! About a month ago, I visited the Strelitz Academy in Virginia Beach and it gave me SUCH HEART! Everyone…
Goodbye, 2024 – but first, a quickie look back at the forces that were allied against Free-Ranging last year. And…
Thanks to John Stossel, here is a half hour of me getting the chance to make all the points swirling…
My thoughts on the Brittany Patterson case, which I was the first to report. (I’ve been having trouble with my…
What social changes gave us “helicopter parenting” and, now, even more “intensive parenting”? This New York Times podcast from a few weeks…
We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes my Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies…