explanation – Taking Children Seriously

How do you tell pre-verbal children about dangers given that they do not understand explanations?

New parent? Planning to have a baby and questioning the standard parenting ideas? Don’t miss this critical discussion!

Free to learn: the immorality of compulsory schools

Why no ‘common preferences’?

Unnatural consequences revisited

How viewing other people as wilful perpetrators embodies the mistaken theory that problems are not soluble, and thus can interfere with problem-solving and result in our beloved children being distressed.

If we should take babies seriously, should we not take pigs seriously too?

How do you take babies seriously?

Taking Children Seriously: a new view of children

Taking Children Seriously is a new VIEW of children – a non-paternalistic view: children do not actually need to be controlled for their own good. An Oxford Karl Popper Society talk.

Punished by rewards