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Practicalities

🔴 “If you are not coercing your child, what do you do instead of coercion, in practice?”

🍎 Reacting to an angry child

🥕 “If you do X, I will give you Y”

🤔 “Surely children need to learn to deal with restrictions to prepare them for life in society?”

⭐️ No way out—and loving it

🪀 Is your baby trying to tell you something?

💠 Curious young children taking things apart

🚙 “What if your child wants to drive?”

🌀 I know what’s good for you

🧬 Both coercion and “doing nothing” are mistakes

🔮 “Our 15-year-old wants to hitchhike to Outer Mongolia by herself. We think she is not yet ‘street-wise’ enough. What should we do?”

♒️ “Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?”

🐙“Surely we should communicate our disapproval to our children?”

🧠 How the parent-child situation is more complicated than the adult-adult one

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