From the archives 1996

For those who requested, this page lists some articles and posts from the archives, for historical interest. If you are new to Taking Children Seriously you might like to start here instead, with the first page of the Taking Children Seriously FAQ:

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Merely desisting from coercion is not enough
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Punishing children using so-called natural consequences
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Why epistemology matters for parents
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Relax about babies watching TV
Margot
The parental ideology of tidiness
Mary Schultz
How would you like it?
Marti Gardner
Are your children free to follow their own interests?
Kevin Schoedel
It’s your house, your income, your everything; and if the kids don’t like it…
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Why giving children rules and boundaries is a mistake
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
It is impossible to control for all the variables in any experiment involving human psychology
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation
Mary Schultz
Genuinely protecting children versus coercing them
Mary Schultz
The language of parental power plays
Mary Schultz
Educational theory: science or philosophy?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Getting kids to ‘agree’ to TV limits
Nick
How about explaining to your children?
Nick
Explanations and experience
Nick
Is creativity even desirable?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Is creativity a boon to the affected individual?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
A big killer of creativity is having your creativity coercively diverted for someone else’s purposes
Nick
Coercion of adults vs. coercion of children
Nick
Karl Popper on the growth of knowledge
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
How parents’ view of coercion progresses when engaging with the idea of taking children seriously
Mary Schultz
Answering questions about Karl Popper’s epistemology
Steven K. Graham
Clarifying Karl Popper’s epistemology
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Coercion—the meaning of the word
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Both coercion and “doing nothing” are mistakes
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
To be taken seriously
Bix
An Objectivist’s assessment of Karl Popper
Tim Starr
Doing nothing academically?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Creativity and untidiness
David Deutsch
A mini Punished by Rewards primer
Catherine B.
Punished by Rewards
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Biting lessons
Mary Griffith
Children are autonomous sources of ends
Tracy H.
Scientism vs morality
David Deutsch
How do our angry critical outbursts look from a different perspective?
Starlene Stewart
(Dis)respecting children
Catherine B.
Coerciveness vs non-coerciveness
Nick
How do you get children excited about maths?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge

See also:

  • From the archives 1995

    • ‘From the archives 1996’, https://takingchildrenseriously.com/from-the-archives-1996/