Lenore Skenazy

I've heard of parents who like two women go and sit at Starbucks and they send their kids to the other end of the strip mall and here's $10, go buy something at the dollar store or go pick up the dry cleaning, we'll be here.

it's really much easier for your kid and for you you're distracted because you're talking to your friend and your kid has somebody to do something with i mean everything's more fun with friends so i'd say find a couple of people who want to practice this with you um all the stuff at let grow is free so i'm gonna it's let grow

I'm just going to say that we have the four weeks to a let grow kid kit.

And it's like the first week is like have kids start doing stuff for themselves that you've been doing for them.

You know, whether that's tying their shoes or getting them out the door or let them bake cookies and they take them out of the oven themselves.

Imagine that.

And then the next week is getting around the neighborhood.

And then there's like do something with a friend.

And I have no idea what the fourth week is, but you'll find it out.

And and another thing that somebody once recommended to me, there's two cool things.

One is Free Play Fridays.

And I actually just heard of a kid who organized Free Play Friday in his neighborhood.

He went around, he put postcards in everybody's mailbox and it said Friday afternoon, like at three o'clock, three to six or three to five, how about all the kids, no grownups, don't come grownups, meet at Locust Park or whatever.

And we'll just see what happens.

We'll just play.

And he didn't know if anybody was gonna come.

And I wish I could remember where he was.

Anyways, to his delight and surprise, 20 kids showed up and the mom sent photos and it just looked like, you know, it looked like the Peanuts gang.

You know, minus Lucy.

But it was just kids in the park.