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Treat Information About Local Education Authorities With Caution
Unschooling And Academic Education 3
Unschooling And Academic Education 2
The Bed-Making Story
Positive Interpretations
Feeling Bad
Unschooling and Academic Education 1
Putting Education First
Unschooling and Karl Popper
Supporting a Child's Choice to Go to School
Does Your Child Love Visiting The Dentist?
Are schools inherently coercive?
The Dark Side of John Holt
Questioning Natural Consequences
Coercion — the Meaning of the Word
Why Is A Three-year-old Child Hitting And What To Do?
Choosing to go to school or Iraq
Carseat In A Medical Emergency?
How did TCS start?
Breaking The Spiral Of Coercion
Children's Rights and the Law
Is Your Child Worried About Death?
But if we don't make her do maths...
How do you get children excited about maths?
Unschooling And Schooling as a Continuum
Junk Food Worries
Does educational freedom lead to big gaps in knowledge?
Help! Child Hates Eyepatch!
What TCS Is, And What It Is Not
Don't Wait Until You're Perfect
What makes your heart sink?
What are some of the most common mistakes?
What to do if you get a visit from a social worker or CPS
Learning to Sleep
Taking Education Seriously
Smash the TV and Burn all the Books
The Demon of the Flickering Light
Sooooo Bored In School
Snapshot
The Importance of Video Games
TCS: It Is Rocket Science!
Lying About Lying
Reacting to an Angry Child
Moralyzin' Maggie
Can An Emotion Be Wrong?
Why Stuff-Management Matters
Forget About It!
Creativity and Untidiness
Medical Emergencies
In Defence of TV Soap Operas
Enacting a Theory
Respecting Other People's Wishes
The Cognitive Capacity Argument
"Time Out" — Time Off or Serving Time?
Introduction to TCS Theory
TCS and Military Training and Organisation
Doing Nothing Academically?
Video Games: A Unique Educational Environment
Do the Kids Rule?
Introduction to Taking Children Seriously
The ‘Keeping One's Options Open’ Mentality
The New TCS Discussion Forum Is Up!
No Way Out - And Loving It
Obligations And Helping One Another
Who Wouldn't Be ‘School Phobic’?
Requiring Children To Do Chores
Taking A Wrong Turn
Beware the Curriculum Mentality
TCS Parenting Is Self-Improving
Practical TCS
Is Hiding Medicine In Your Child's Food Wrong?
When Toddlers Get Upset
Taking Toys Seriously (Yes, Really)
Children Are Not Born Knowing Right And Wrong
Curious Young Children Taking Things Apart
Housework Help For a Harried Mother
Feeding The Family: Some Tips For the Cooking-Phobic
Parenting By The Book
How Would You Like It?
Introduction to Taking Children Seriously (TCS)
TCS-Related Quotations
Natural Consequences
TCS and Karl Popper
Authority
There But For An Internet Post Go I...
More TCS Discussions on the Net
The TCS Survey (1997)
Scowl
(Not) Doling Out Looks and Latitude
Waste Not, Want Not
TCS Theory and Practice
My Heavenly-Horrific Vision of TCS
Parental Aversions
Common Preferences and Solving Problems Non-coercively
“Getting Children Reading”
Common Preferences and Non-coercion
Atheist Parents on How to Treat Teenagers
The Education of Karl Popper
How to Avoid Giving Unwanted Answers to Unasked Questions
Noticing That You Have Changed Your Mind
Choosing Creativity
TCS and Fallibilism
On “Educational” Computer Games
One Blogger's Thoughtful Commentary on TCS
Optimism

  • By Kevin at 2005/06/24 - 3:01pm