Congress to Consider Letting Kids Be Kids

Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His Mom 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 and legal. The legal part got a huge boost Tuesday when Rep. Blake Moore (R., Utah) and Janet McClellan (D., Virginia) introduced the Promoting Childhood Independence and Resilience Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. Its purpose is “to promote childhood independence” rather than threaten or investigate parents who give their kids some unsupervised time. Course Correction Needed “I grew up in the generation where your parents sent you out and you played in the neighborhood till the streetlights came on,” said Rep. McClellan. That wasn’t neglect – that was childhood. Hearing stories about parents investigated for letting their…