might does not make right – Taking Children Seriously

Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?

I’m a vegetarian. What if my child wants to eat meat?

How do you intervene non-coercively when one child is attacking another?

Do children not taught that they can’t always get their own way become entitled and inconsiderate?

What do you have against coercion?

Why does parenting feel so hard?

What most parents think they need to do as parents – moulding and shaping their children – is an impossible task. No wonder parenting is a nightmare for so many parents! But there is an alternative!