As more states start to pass what we used to call “Free-Range Parenting” laws (and now call “Reasonable Childhood Independence”…
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“When kids are trusted with free time to figure things out on their own, they start working on their very…
Izzy Kalman is a long-time school psychologist with iconoclastic ideas about how to help kids deal with bullying. Often, he…
It’s been 12 years since Free-Range Kids was published. In honor of the new edition, which just came out, I…
The updated and expanded second edition of Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow will…
A small, totally unscientific poll I ran on Twitter found that, of about 350 parents, 55% said that at some…
Metaphors are the topic at Let Grow today. I just learned that the trees planted in Biosphere 2, the kinda…
A dad wrote to Let Grow to vent: He’d been eating at the Costco food court with his 4-year-old daughter…
Over at Let Grow we have a precious video: Kids actually PLAYING together, at school, outside, during COVID. It’s the…
On Saturday, Texas became the third state in America to enshrine the right of kids to a Free-Range Childhood. It…