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Taking Children Seriously

problems are soluble

New parent? Planning to have a baby and questioning the standard parenting ideas? Don’t miss this critical discussion!

What do you mean by ‘fallible’?

What if your child runs into traffic?

What do you mean by ‘coercionist’?

The can-do attitude versus the can’t-do attitude

Fallibilism as a way of being and acting

A commitment to figuring it out

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

How do you handle the issue of other people coercing your child?

Unnatural consequences revisited

When a solution is not found, is it always the parents who must bear the brunt of the sacrifice?

How can I drop the anti-rational part of my mind that interferes with me taking my children seriously?

How can I overcome the antirational memes disabling my creativity, with my disabled creativity?!

If anti-rational memes are compelling me to coerce my children, what hope is there?!

Why do parents coerce their children despite having been through it themselves?

If coercion has impaired my ability to correct errors, is taking children seriously even possible?

Surely the lack of that extra money is a comparative disadvantage?

Is Taking Children Seriously only for the rich?

Why not say that the policy is non-coercion except on important issues?

If we are fallible and not omniscient, surely it is exaggerating to say it is always possible to solve problems without coercion?

Is hiding medicine in your child’s food wrong?

How do you take babies seriously?

What if your child wants to drive?

I’m a vegetarian. What if my child wants to eat meat?

How do you intervene non-coercively when one child is attacking another?

Is coercion always wrong?

Do children not taught that they can’t always get their own way become entitled and inconsiderate?

How is a compromise not a real solution?

How do you solve problems where there is a conflict of interest?

If I am not allowed to coerce my child, surely I am being coerced myself?

Does Taking Children Seriously mean children always getting their own way?

What is Taking Children Seriously?

Taking Children Seriously: a new view of children

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