When you feel ready to let your kid use a sharp knife, or bike around the neighborhood, or go on…

Harriet the Spy. Encyclopedia Brown. Meg and brother Charles Wallace, Ramona, Beezus, Pippi, and that My Side of the Mountain…

Gym teachers don’t have to have kids doing specific sports or skills all the time. When P.E. teacher David Benay…

“I think this school is making a mistake,” tweeted Jonathan Haidt, co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind.” What…

Hi! I’m Lenore, the gal who let her 9-year-old ride the subway alone, wrote a column about it, got slammed…

It’s not just that Oklahoma State Rep. Chad Caldwell (R) and Rep. Jacob Rosecrants (D) both believe parents shouldn’t be…

A 10-year-old boy picked up from his Chicago public school seven minutes late triggered a call from the school to…

A dad takes his daughter for a walk in the rain and a passing van thinks he is tormenting her.…

How does it feel? Read my thoughts (as it were!) over at Let Grow. Click here! And think about the…

…their dad, Nevada physician Daniel Hansen, supports the Reasonable Childhood Independence bill being introduced in his state today. As he…