Taking Children Seriously

The criticism sometimes levelled at TCS parents, that they must be doormats, is in terms of education actually more appropriate when applied to conventional parents.

To ensure that your child loves visiting the dentist, read this!

Despite having been influenced by our very own David Deutsch, John Holt was not as close to TCS as we might have hoped.

Did you hate being bossed about by your parents and teachers? Have you developed a life strategy of “my way is the only way” to prevent others coercing you? The problem is that in applying this to your children, you do to them the very thing you hated as a child – and you cause them to grow up to do the very same thing to their own children.

It would be nice to be able to be perfect. Unfortunately, we're human, and we have to do the best we can now, not wait.

Why freedom in the matter of academic study is inseparable from freedom in the matter of chores, bedtime and everything else.

Optimism, which is both the feeling that problems can be solved and the enjoyment of solving them, breaks the chains of the self-fulfilling prophesy of endless suffering.