The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

The Coddling of the American Mind Movie

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Fighting Anxiety with Free Play

Fighting Anxiety with Free Play

A school unbuttons recess and boosts independence

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About a month ago, I visited the Strelitz Academy in Virginia Beach. Wow!

Everyone in the elementary school is doing The Let Grow Experience, so there were paper trees in the hall festooned with Let Grow “leaves.” These are leaf-shaped pieces of paper where the kids wrote the new things they’d just started doing on the…

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President and co-founder of Let Grow (LetGrow.org), the nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. For more info, Google "America's Worst Mom." Really
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