Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Against having an agenda for children that is independent of and impervious to their wishes

🧠 What do you mean by ‘having an agenda’ for your children? Are all wants for your children agendas?

💜 What does agenda-free education look like?

♒️ What about instilling values like freedom, fallibilism and the idea of taking children seriously?

🖲️ Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation

💙 What is Taking Children Seriously?

🥶 “If you do X, I will give you Y”

❎ Even having an agenda that children grow up to believe in freedom is not taking them seriously as sovereign people in their own right

🍏 Video games: a unique educational environment

🤢 How to talk so your kids will be manipulated

⚠️ Do children not taught that they can’t always get their own way become entitled and inconsiderate?

🤔 How can we express approval when our children do something good without manipulating them by implying that we would disapprove if they had made a different choice?

📙 Kids Are Worth it, by Barbara Coloroso: a book review

🥵 Unnatural consequences revisited

💔 Coercion, manipulation, reason, persuasion

♦️ The Keeping-One’s-Options-Open mentality

🍎 What do you mean by non-coercive? What is the difference between coercion and non-coercion?

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