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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
None ‘more equal than others’

🧠 “How are parents and children are equals?!”

⚛️ None of the Diana Baumrind ‘parenting’ styles—authoritarian, authoritative, permissive (and neglectful)—take children seriously as equally sovereign people

🧬 “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”?

🔷 The approval (or disapproval) given by the one in charge to the one below vs the natural delight expressed between equals

❎ “When does an equal ask permission?”

🌕 Equals vs paternalism

👩🏻‍🦰 “How is the word ‘parenting’ not taking children seriously?”

♥️ The new view of children as equal sovereign individuals: no source of ideas treated as authoritative

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