Rousseau’s Julie and brushing over differences
Why it might sometimes be better not to brush over differences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How to talk so your kids will be manipulated
The Faber/Mazlish How To Talk So Kids Will Listen books are not taking children seriously: they advocate double-binding and lying to children to manipulate them into going along with the parent’s agenda that is independent of and impervious to the child’s own wishes.