Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
The anomaly between what is thought right for adults vs what is thought right for children
Different labels for adults and children
“Why allow minors to disregard the guidance of their elders?”
One tone of voice for children; another (a more respectful one) for adults
Whose ends?
Singling out children
Playing police officer with our children but not our adult partner
Coercion of adults vs. coercion of children
“Children are not always rational and make mistakes.” The same is true of adults.
Questioning natural consequences
Arguments used for children but not adults
Violating parents’ rights of conscience
How would you like it?
The final prejudice
Authoritarian with children but not with adults?
When the way people treat children clashes with our wider values: the glaring anomaly between what people think right in the case of adults vs what they think right in the case of children
Clarification of what I mean by ‘coercion’
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