Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
The anomaly between what is thought right for adults vs what is thought right for children

Children are people too

‘Natural consequences’ aren’t. The (un)kindness anomaly.

One tone of voice for children; another (a more respectful one) for adults

The anomalous view of children vs the new view of children

Questioning natural consequences

Playing police officer with our children but not our adult partner

Coercion of adults vs. coercion of children

How the anomaly makes parenting feel so hard

“Children are not always rational and make mistakes.” The same is true of adults.

Imagine putting an adult loved one in a time out

Lying about lying to children

Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism

How would you like it?

Authoritarian with children but not with adults?

Consistent rules set in concrete or children thinking for themselves with parents available to advise

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

Rousseau’s Julie and brushing over differences

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