Editor’s Pick. Written by Todd Walker for Survival Sherpa. Schools teach many things. These dangerous lessons may not be explicitly taught, but they are definitely ‘caught’ by every student – even parents. Good or bad depends which side of the desk you’re on. As an insider, I’m giving you my top six most dangerous lessons…
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Do You Fight In Front of Your Kids?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham for AhaParenting.com. In the past, most experts reassured parents that there’s no harm in children seeing them fight, as long as the kids also see the parents make up afterwards. However, recent developments in neurological research challenge this view. Not surprisingly, it turns out that when children hear angry…
Culture in a Cage
Written by Mike Reid for FEE.org. Recently, three children from a little-known forest tribe in India approached a nearby Indian village and asked to join their school. The teachers, however, were forbidden by law from admitting the kids. This is because the Indian government prohibits regular folk from interacting with those children, or any members…
Every Moment Counts
Written by Kelly Bartlett for Parenting From Scratch. All of our children’s experiences build foundational circuitry in the brain. New neural pathways form with each interaction and communication our kids have every day. So all those little moments that your kids will not remember from their early childhoods–the conversations, daily carpool rides, trips to the…
Childism: The Unacknowledged Prejudice Against Kids
Written by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl for Time.com. When we read in the newspaper that a child in New Jersey has died from neglect from an untreated broken leg, or that a child in Florida’s protective services could just disappear without a trace, or that molestation of children has been covered up in yet another diocese of…
Marriage in a Free Society
Written by Jim Davies for Strike-The-Root.com. What will marriage be like in the coming free society? Answer, of course: exactly what the contracting parties desire, neither more nor less. Marriage is a contract, governing relationships between two or more people. Its traditional terms are usually spelled out orally before witnesses, and involve forsaking all other…
The Unschooling Mindset
Presentation by Blake Boles.
Less Dangerous Targets
Written by Butler Shaffer for LewRockwell.com. Congressional renewal of the federal Violence Against Women Act is generating a good deal of discussion in the media, academia, and political forums over what sounds like a noncontroversial topic. Is there to be a debate on the question of whether violence should be visited upon women? Are there…
The Challenge of Undesigned and Anonymous Order
Written by Steve Horwitz for FFF.org. The spontaneous order of the market has long been an object of both theoretical and aesthetic contemplation for libertarians. From Adam Smith’s discussion of the number of hands it took to make a wool coat, to Leonard Read’s justly famous “I, Pencil,” to the examples that fill Russ Roberts’s…
What Adults Can Learn From Kids
Presentation by Adora Svitak.