Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Horizontal vs vertical relationships

❓ Equal relationships with our children?! How are parents and children are equals?!

👹 Are you doling out or withholding approval to manipulate your child from above?

🥵 How is the word ‘parenting’ not taking children seriously? It suggests a vertical relationship

🤔 Children taken seriously consult others but do not ask permission. Why do children in other families ask permission?

❇️ Non-coercive, equal, horizontal relationships vs vertical relationships in which the parents are in charge and moulding and shaping the children from above

🥶 What is wrong with loving limits for children?

🧬 What is Taking Children Seriously?

👿 The vertical relationships created by authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved parenting styles

💖 Taking Children Seriously: no one’s ideas are deemed to have authority; all the ideas are on the table

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