Kids aren't addicted to screens—they're starved for freedom. A new poll shows they crave real-life play. Here's how we can give it back to them.| Let Grow
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 REALLY want to do is hang out together in real life – with no adults hovering, and no screens. They go online because that’s the only place they can| Free-Range Kids
Let Grow is the nonprofit working to give kids independence and free play.| Let Grow
Yascha Mounk and Lenore Skenazy discuss why kids should take risks.| yaschamounk.substack.com
A new study finds parents WANT to give their kids more independence but are finding it just too hard to do.| Let Grow
When COVID-19 shut down her children's daycare in May of 2020, and Melissa Henderson had to go to work, she…| Reason.com
TIDES TURNING AT LAST? Just a few months after Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was arrested for not knowing that her son, then 10, had walked to the store on his own, her state has passed a Reasonable Childhood Independence law. It now goes to the governor for signing. The bill clarifies that “neglect” is only when you put| Free-Range Kids
The age that kids start playing — walking, biking, frolicking outside — should be up to the parents. But that’s not always the case. A few years back, after the first Reasonable Childhood Independence law passed in Utah – hooray! – we received a query from a lawmaker. He said he wanted his state to pass| Free-Range Kids
Goodbye, 2024 – but first, a quickie look back at the forces that were allied against Free-Ranging last year. And then? A hairpin turn to hope! Worst first! Child Reported Walking: As, ahem, I was the very first person to report, Georgia mom Brittany Patterson was charged with “reckless conduct” when her son, 10, walked| Free-Range Kids
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness| www.afterbabel.com