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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Everyone has gaps in awareness

We shall not coerce

Identifying coercion is itself a creative task

Noticing I am pushing against a blind spot

The challenge of identifying blind spots (what you don’t know that you don’t know)

The paternalistic blindspot about children

“What if a child wants to buy something the parent is boycotting for moral reasons?”

What people ‘see’ is coloured by their ideas and expectations

Oh, how we delude ourselves—blindspots!

Try reframing the problem

Blind to the anomaly

Against replacing the ‘blind spot’ metaphor

No blind spots?

‍Parental blindspots

How defining yourself in terms of injustice sabotages your life

On the arbitrariness of coercion

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