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Misapprehensions about Taking Children Seriously (part 1/2)

🧠 The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously is just being kinder to the ‘inmates’

♒️ The misapprehension that taking children seriously means leaving children to rot, or children fending for themselves like adults

🧬 The misapprehension that to avoid utopianism you need to make changes to the coercive regime piecemeal

🔵 The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously assumes that children are born knowing right and wrong

🥶 The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously is permissive parenting

💠 The common misunderstandings of Taking Children Seriously arising from how we expressed the idea of ‘common preferences’

✳️ The misapprehension of thinking that coercion is a mistake because it might lead to some future harm such as trauma. (It is unknowable what the future effect will be. Coercion is harmful now.)

🍏 Some of the things people imagine Taking Children Seriously is, that it is not

🤔 “Don’t children have to be coercively taught that they can’t always get their own way, to avoid them becoming entitled and inconsiderate?”

🔥 The misapprehension that being rational implies being an open book (“wanting privacy is not being open to criticism!”) and always welcoming any and all criticism from others (“being open to criticism means listening to my criticism!”) no matter what.

🚼 The misapprehension that pre-verbal children who may not yet understand explicit explanations cannot be taken seriously (“coercion is necessary”)

🍎 Common misapprehensions about Taking Children Seriously

💔 The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously means parents sacrificing themselves ‘for’ their children, self-coercively overriding their own wishes in the name of ‘non-coercion’

🌈 The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously promotes victim mentality/defining yourself in terms of injustice

Tomorrow: part 2

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