Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need

As parents, we want to safeguard our children from the pressures and influences of the world but also prepare them for age-appropriate realities.

How do we find that balance? Jessica Smartt shares ways to be more aware, engaged, proactive, creative, and protective, but also adventurous with our kids.

Let Them Be Kids is Jessica’s offering of grace and confidence to moms, giving us practical ideas to meet the challenge.

Her well-researched, tested methods, woven together with her personal stories and witty humor, deliver wisdom on tough topics, such as:Balancing family time vs.

outside activities,The gift of being awkward and uncool,Managing technology,Protecting purity, Showing grace when kids disobey,And more.