How to Get Our Free "Let Grow Play Club" Guide and...
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Welcome! Inspired by the post on Jonathan Haidt’s After Babel Substack about the power of real-life, “loose parts,” free play? That means you still remember how great it felt to just PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS. (Did you think about the giant leaps you were making in social-emotional learning? I dearly hope not, and feel bad I have to subtly bring them up in this parenthetical remark.) But all that happens at a Let Grow Play Club — a swath of time that schools stay open for all-age, screen-free playing before or after school.
Happily, if you’d like to start a Let Grow Play Club at your school, our implementation guide (straightforward as can be) is free! Click here.
And if you’d like to bring The Let Grow Experience to your school — where kids get the homework assignment, “Go home and do something new, on your own, WITH your parents’ permission, but WITHOUT your parents” — our implementation guide for that is free, too. Click here!
These are the two programs Let Grow recommends because they bring back the two crucial things modern day kids are losing out on: Free play — as opposed to adult-led sports or activities. And independence — being out in the world, not always supervised.
As those have gone down in kids’ lives, anxiety and depression have been going up — for decades.
I’ll leave you with a 90-second video of kids describing how playing in real life at a Let Grow Play Club compares to the other fun in their lives — screens.