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SALISBURY:
LET GROW CHALLENGE Try something new... on your own! |
This summer, Salisbury Parks & Recreation, in collaboration with the Salisbury Public Library Children’s Room, the Salisbury Boys & Girls Club, and Salisbury Elementary School, invites kids and families to join the Let Grow Challenge—a fun, empowering way to help kids try new things, gain independence, and build confidence!
As part of the national Let Grow Initiative, Salisbury is launching a community-wide effort to foster youth independence, resilience, and real-world responsibility through unstructured play and age-appropriate challenges. Kids and teens will take on exciting tasks—like walking to a store, making a meal, or fixing something at home—while earning fun rewards and growing essential life skills.
Show your accomplishments at Tuesdays on Salisbury Beach and at special events throughout the summer! We’ll have Challenge Sheets, fun activities, and plenty of encouragement to support your Let Grow journey.
🌟 What’s the Goal? To help children:
✅ Build real-world skills
✅ Develop healthy independence
✅ Reduce stress and anxiety by gaining confidence in themselves
✅ How it Works:
🙌 GROWN-UPS: TAKE THE LET GROW PLEDGE! Let Grow encourages adults to step back just enough to let kids grow up. That means allowing a little mess, struggle, or boredom so kids can find their own solutions and develop confidence.
Little nervous? Let Grow has myth busters and crime statistics to put your mind at ease!
🙌 KIDS: TAKE THE LET GROW PLEDGE! The Let Grow Kid Pledge is a promise to try new things independently each week, helping kids build confidence, responsibility, and resilience in a safe, supportive way.
📚 Miss Nicole will have books and inspiration for every challenge.
👟 The Boys & Girls Club and Rec Team will be tracking your progress and cheering you on.
🏫 Salisbury Elementary will be joining us in the fall as we continue this initiative into the school year!
Let’s work together to grow stronger, braver kids—one week at a time!
👉 Learn more at LetGrow.org
As part of the national Let Grow Initiative, Salisbury is launching a community-wide effort to foster youth independence, resilience, and real-world responsibility through unstructured play and age-appropriate challenges. Kids and teens will take on exciting tasks—like walking to a store, making a meal, or fixing something at home—while earning fun rewards and growing essential life skills.
Show your accomplishments at Tuesdays on Salisbury Beach and at special events throughout the summer! We’ll have Challenge Sheets, fun activities, and plenty of encouragement to support your Let Grow journey.
🌟 What’s the Goal? To help children:
✅ Build real-world skills
✅ Develop healthy independence
✅ Reduce stress and anxiety by gaining confidence in themselves
✅ How it Works:
- Pick up or download your Let Grow Challenge Sheet
- Each week, choose something new to try on your own (with your grown-up’s OK!)
- Visit us at Check-In Tuesdays, the Library, Salisbury Elementary School, or the Boys & Girls Club to share your progress and earn weekly prizes
- 🎉 Complete at least 8 weekly challenges and you’ll get a FREE ice cream coupon at the end of summer!
🙌 GROWN-UPS: TAKE THE LET GROW PLEDGE! Let Grow encourages adults to step back just enough to let kids grow up. That means allowing a little mess, struggle, or boredom so kids can find their own solutions and develop confidence.
Little nervous? Let Grow has myth busters and crime statistics to put your mind at ease!
🙌 KIDS: TAKE THE LET GROW PLEDGE! The Let Grow Kid Pledge is a promise to try new things independently each week, helping kids build confidence, responsibility, and resilience in a safe, supportive way.
📚 Miss Nicole will have books and inspiration for every challenge.
👟 The Boys & Girls Club and Rec Team will be tracking your progress and cheering you on.
🏫 Salisbury Elementary will be joining us in the fall as we continue this initiative into the school year!
Let’s work together to grow stronger, braver kids—one week at a time!
👉 Learn more at LetGrow.org
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WHY?
🧠 1. Builds Real-World Confidence: When kids try new things on their own—like walking to a friend’s house, ordering food, or solving small problems—they learn that they can handle things. This sense of capability lowers their dependence on adults for reassurance and reduces the fear of the unknown.
🌱 2. Creates Exposure to Manageable Risks: Anxiety often grows when kids are shielded from small, everyday challenges. Let Grow promotes low-stakes, age-appropriate independence, which helps kids slowly adapt to uncertainty and develop healthy coping skills.
🔄 3. Breaks the Worry Cycle: Overprotective environments—though well-intentioned—can unintentionally send the message that the world is unsafe or that kids aren’t capable. Let Grow turns that around by encouraging small steps toward autonomy, which reduces “what if?” thinking and teaches kids to trust themselves.
💪 4. Encourages Resilience Through Experience: Each time a child overcomes a challenge on their own, it builds emotional resilience. They learn to bounce back from frustration, boredom, or even small failures—key experiences that reduce the intensity and frequency of anxiety over time.
👨👩👧 5. Gives Parents Tools to Step Back Safely: Let Grow includes a Parent Pledge to support caregivers in allowing kids to grow. This reduces parental anxiety, which often transfers to kids. When adults model calm confidence, kids feel safer and more secure.
🧠 1. Builds Real-World Confidence: When kids try new things on their own—like walking to a friend’s house, ordering food, or solving small problems—they learn that they can handle things. This sense of capability lowers their dependence on adults for reassurance and reduces the fear of the unknown.
🌱 2. Creates Exposure to Manageable Risks: Anxiety often grows when kids are shielded from small, everyday challenges. Let Grow promotes low-stakes, age-appropriate independence, which helps kids slowly adapt to uncertainty and develop healthy coping skills.
🔄 3. Breaks the Worry Cycle: Overprotective environments—though well-intentioned—can unintentionally send the message that the world is unsafe or that kids aren’t capable. Let Grow turns that around by encouraging small steps toward autonomy, which reduces “what if?” thinking and teaches kids to trust themselves.
💪 4. Encourages Resilience Through Experience: Each time a child overcomes a challenge on their own, it builds emotional resilience. They learn to bounce back from frustration, boredom, or even small failures—key experiences that reduce the intensity and frequency of anxiety over time.
👨👩👧 5. Gives Parents Tools to Step Back Safely: Let Grow includes a Parent Pledge to support caregivers in allowing kids to grow. This reduces parental anxiety, which often transfers to kids. When adults model calm confidence, kids feel safer and more secure.