What we owe children Sarah Fitz-Claridge: Taking Children Seriously and freedom (video|audio interview) Unhealthy food ideas Reflections on a botched birthday My Taking Children (and myself!) Seriously story Induction and criticism People are fallible statement-generating systems Less capable justifies coercion? Coercion warps knowledge structures Young children “pre-rational”? Are dogs people too? Doing something fun helped Rationality in Popperian epistemology Children are not irrational What sort of conflict is coercion? (Was: Bait for Sarah) Neighbors reacting to naked kids “What if they bring home objectionable literature?!” Solutions are created at the time The word ‘theory’ Disputes with children