New parent? Planning to have a baby and questioning the standard parenting ideas? Don’t miss this critical discussion!
Will a child not made to do chores ever develop a work ethic? And if not, how will they ever have a good life?
Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?
Unless we get children try different things, how will they ever learn which things are fun and which are not fun?
Isn’t taking children seriously a risky experiment with children? Is there any evidence that it works? Has it been studied?
How can I drop the anti-rational part of my mind that interferes with me taking my children seriously?
At what age should children first leave the house on their own, visit their friend next door on their own, go to the cinema on their own, hitchhike from coast to coast on their own, etc.?
If children are people just like adults, why should we treat our children any differently from how we treat adults?
Which parenting style is Taking Children Seriously? Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, or uninvolved?