Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Psychological innocence: why assume good intentions?
💡 How viewing other people as ill-intentioned interferes with problem-solving
🧠 “How does assuming that people coercing your child are well-intentioned help?!”
💟 Fallibilism and viewing ourselves and our fellow fallible flawed friends and family kindly
🌀 “What if…?” questions revisited
❇️ Taking Children Seriously assumes that people are well-intentioned and lack knowledge and make mistakes, not ill-intentioned perpetrators
⚠️ How assuming bad intentions adversely affects learning
🥵 What about the anti-rational parts of your mind?
🚨 When one child is attacking another, assume there is a lack of knowledge (vs wilful evil)
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