Writes Free Your Kids: Peaceful parenting is not permissive parenting. Our kids don’t run the house. We do not live in chaos and disarray. The fundamentals are self-ownership and the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP). We teach our kids that they own themselves. No one should be permitted to encroach on their bodies or their property. The…
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The Right to Self-Defense
Written by Andrew Napolitano for LewRockwell.com. In all the noise caused by the Obama administration’s direct assault on the right of every person to keep and bear arms, the essence of the issue has been drowned out. The president and his big-government colleagues want you to believe that only the government can keep you free…
My Road to Liberty Went Through Economics
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I understand that many libertarians, including Stefan Molyneux, argue that ethical and moral arguments for liberty are superior to…
Smaller, Weaker
Writes Free Your Kids: The vast majority of humans do not hit those who may hit them back. Most men, even when terribly angry and enraged, will not hit another man because, in part, they fear being struck back. Same thing goes for women hitting other women (or men). Getting into physical altercations is not…
10 Steps To Stop Yelling
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. “Dr Laura….I know I should stop yelling, but I can’t. And I can’t imagine getting my kids to listen if I don’t yell at them…Can you move in with me for a week?!” – Cheralynn Like Cheralynn, most parents think they “should” stop yelling, but they don’t believe…
Gun Control: Who Gets Control?
Written by Darian Worden for the Center for a Stateless Society. Supporting gun control laws means giving government more credit than it deserves. Government is an institution run and staffed by people with their own interests and personalities. Are they really any smarter, more competent, or less likely to escalate violence than the average person?…
Control is War
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. War is clearly destructive. Even war fought totally in self-defense is destructive; destructive to life, liberty, and property. Murray…
School is Not For Learning
Written by Grace Llewellyn, as published at The Natural Child Project. Our brains and spirits are the freest things in the universe. Our bodies can live in chains, but our intellects cannot. It’s that simple. The mind will be free, or it will be dead. It can be numbed, quieted, and restrained so that it…
The Non-Aggression Principle
Writes Free Your Kids: We follow the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP). So do you. It says, simply: No one may initiate force against another. Note: This does not preclude self-defense. It is a beautiful, elegant, simple philosophy. We all follow the NAP in our personal relationships. You can’t *force* your neighbor to lend you his shovel.…
How I Learned the Mechanics of Money, and So Can You
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original weekly column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. To date, one of the most influential books…