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Of Helen Keller and Helicopter Parenting
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (450+ words) The movie that best illustrates today’s parenting expectations is “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller. When Annie Sullivan is hired as governess, she gets feral Helen to eat off her own plate — a harrowing process. The parents are so thrilled,…...
Congress to Consider Letting Kids Be Kids
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (640+ words) How do you get more kids out and about on their own – and assure parents this won’t be mistaken for neglect? That’s a question Let Grow has been addressing since we were founded in 2017 to make childhood independence easy, normal…...
The "Lord of the Flies" Problem
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (187+ words) Soon everyone will be watching Netflix’s new 4-part Lord of the Flies. So let me repeat what the great Peter Gray says about that story: As for the Netflix series, the book was adapted for the screen by Jack Thorne,…...
It's Hard to Get My Kid Outside
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (245+ words) The social commentator Matthew Yglesias posted a note about his son’s childhood on Twitter yesterday — under an amazing (and, to me, infuriating and heartbreaking) graph from the Institute for Family Studies: My son (age eleven) is definitely allowed to go…...
Left? Right? Newsom and Cox Weigh in on Childhood Independence (Jennifer and Abby, That is)
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (954+ words) Have you noticed that childhood independence is almost shockingly NON PARTISAN? It’s not a right or left-wing thing to want your kids to be able to walk to the store, play outside, or spend some unsupervised time at home – without…...
Toys Tell Us What's Going on in Childhood
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (554+ words) But now the cool thing is “MESH” toys – toys that provide Mental, Emotional, and Social Health. Which are all toys ever made, of course. But today’s toys insist they teach kids how to lose, or share, or “deal with big…...
It’s Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (302+ words) Free-Range Parents may recall 2025 as a year that brought them arrests, investigations, and solid proof that helicopters are still swarming over childhood. Was it all that bad? Here are the – A Harris Poll of kids 8-12 discovered that most aren’t allowed…...