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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
The anomaly between what is thought right for adults vs what is thought right for children

Children are people too

Different labels for adults and children

Why allow minors to disregard the guidance of their elders?

‘Natural consequences’ aren’t. The (un)kindness anomaly.

Singling out children

Whose ends?

The anomalous view of children vs the new view of children

How the anomaly makes parenting feel so hard

Imagine putting an adult loved one in a time out

Arguments used for children but not adults

Lying about lying to children

Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism

Violating parents’ rights of conscience

The final prejudice

Consistent rules set in concrete or children thinking for themselves with parents available to advise

Rousseau’s Julie and brushing over differences

Clarification of what I mean by ‘coercion’

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