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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Practicalities

“If you are not coercing your child, what do you do instead of coercion, in practice?”

Reacting to an angry child

“If you do X, I will give you Y”

“Surely children need to learn to deal with restrictions to prepare them for life in society?”

No way out—and loving it

Is your baby trying to tell you something?

Curious young children taking things apart

“What if your child wants to drive?”

I know what’s good for you

Both coercion and “doing nothing” are mistakes

“Our 15-year-old wants to hitchhike to Outer Mongolia by herself. We think she is not yet ‘street-wise’ enough. What should we do?”

“Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?”

“Surely we should communicate our disapproval to our children?”

How the parent-child situation is more complicated than the adult-adult one

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