Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
How do you protect children noncoercively?

🧠 How about explaining to your children?

👶🏻 “Explanations are great for older children but how do you protect pre-verbal children without coercion?!”

♒️ ‘Protection’ against a child’s will is coercion not protection

🥶 “There are some issues on which I am authoritarian”

🚛 “What if your child runs into traffic?”

🧩 Parental rules don’t protect children—information does

🧒 Genuinely protecting children versus coercing them

🥵 Making a child feel bad doesn’t help if you’re trying to protect them

💔 Coercively protecting children

🧒🏿 “How do you noncoercively protect a child who wants to visit their friend next door on their own, go to the park on their own, etc.?”

🚨 There is no safety in ignorance

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