HOW TO GIVE KIDS SCREEN-FREE PLAY TIME:

This mom made it happen! Started with 6 kids now has 43:

https://letgrow.org/screen-free-play-time-let-grow-play-club/

Can't make this stuff up:

HOW A KID'S SOCCER GAME BECAME A CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES CASE

A mom overheard her son, 8, complaining about another kid playing rough and pretty soon a caseworker was conducting interviews:

https://reason.com/2026/01/29/how-a-kids-soccer-game-became-a-child-welfare-case/

PERCEPTION: "I CAN'T LET MY KIDS PLAY OUTSIDE -- CRIME IS SOARING!"

REALITY: 2025 had
"THE LARGEST ONE-YEAR DROP IN MURDER EVER RECORDED."

https://jasher.substack.com/p/2025-year-in-review-a-remarkable?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1234332&post_id=141311133&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=xfa3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"My 8-y.o. has been experimenting w/ tiny moments of independence. The look on his face says it all. I realized that independence is an important thing to teach my children." - @BusinessInsider

For help letting go, visit LetGrow.Org!

https://bit.ly/3MzatDJ

Reddit qu:

"I keep seeing movies & shows set in the 80s where kids are just out all day with no supervision - riding bikes, playing in the woods, coming home when the streetlights turn on. Was this actually normal back then?"

It was!

It's a heavy lift but @LetGrowOrg is bringing this back!

Our FREE programs for parents & schools gently push parents to let go. EVERYONE grows! AND it's thrilling! Visit Let Grow and click on Schools or Parents. (Or both!)

Hearing her school was going to do the (free!) Let Grow Experience--having kids do new REAL WORLD things ON THEIR OWN--a teacher STOOD UP up & declared, "NO WAY."

A year later, her 6 yo walks to her friend's house, alone.

@LetGrowOrg is changing childhood. (And parenthood!)

CANADIANS!

Journalist Simon Lewsen is writing for The Walrus abt Free-Range Parenting AND schools/parents doing The Let Grow Experience or Play Club.

If you are and have experienced anything great--or criticism--he'd love to chat. Anonymous = ok!
Email: [email protected]

Go Missouri!

Gov. Mike Kehoe just signed a bill that includes a Reasonable Childhood Independence section, sponsored by
@JoshHurlbert
. It says "neglect" is when you put a child in obvious, serious danger. Not anytime you simply take your eyes off them!

PHOTO:
@MissouriNet

My friend's amazing home (chateau?) in Bucks County, PA, is available for photo shoots!

IG: https://www.instagram.com/chateaubuttonwood/

Email: [email protected]