Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Against having an agenda for children that is independent of and impervious to their wishes
What do you mean by ‘having an agenda’ for your children? Are all wants for your children agendas?
What does agenda-free education look like?
What about instilling values like freedom, fallibilism and the idea of taking children seriously?
Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation
What is Taking Children Seriously?
“If you do X, I will give you Y”
Even having an agenda that children grow up to believe in freedom is not taking them seriously as sovereign people in their own right
Video games: a unique educational environment
How to talk so your kids will be manipulated
Do children not taught that they can’t always get their own way become entitled and inconsiderate?
How can we express approval when our children do something good without manipulating them by implying that we would disapprove if they had made a different choice?
Kids Are Worth it, by Barbara Coloroso: a book review
Unnatural consequences revisited
Coercion, manipulation, reason, persuasion
The Keeping-One’s-Options-Open mentality
What do you mean by non-coercive? What is the difference between coercion and non-coercion?
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