Patience persuasion relies on two extraordinarily mundane and dirt-cheap things – reminders and time. Of course, this all assumes that you have a good reason to want someone to do something, and that you have clearly articulated how it is in their best interest to also do that thing. Don’t skimp here.
Tag: responsibility
Love and Assertiveness
Love and Assertiveness are two sides of the same coin; one necessitates and depends on the other. Loving yourself requires asserting your rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Loving a partner requires assertiveness in creating and protecting an environment of honesty and communication. Loving a child requires asserting certain boundaries or limits around their behavior.
Cops: Good, Bad, or Something Else?
I say cops are bad guys, but that is not a popular observation. Many people desperately want to cling to their belief that cops are good guys. Yeah, it’s kind of pathetic, but that’s how they are. But there’s a third position which I’ve seen hinted at that is about halfway between the two views. It deserves consideration.
You Get to Make the Rules
It’s a rush when you remember your agency. It’s also a weight of responsibility. Most of the time, most things are efficiently outsourced to common practice. But when it’s not working or doesn’t feel right, don’t forget you can do whatever the heck you want.
“Pacifism”
I oppose aggression in all its forms. I am not a pacifist. The very thought sickens me. I’ve known people who said they were pacifists, and if that’s what they want I’m not going to insist they change. But pacifism seems like a rejection of responsibility.
Rationally Speaking
The most important question in a debate is not “What’s the evidence for your point of view?” It’s “Why should anyone care to discuss the evidence for your point of view?” In any debate, the first type of evidence to demand is the kind that proves the debate is actually worth your time.
Where You Are and Where You Are Headed
My conversion story isn’t that dramatic. Sure, I used to accept a lot of statist nonsense. I thought some “laws” were good and necessary. I thought some cops were probably decent people. I figured licenses and permits had their place, and I wondered whether guns should be more tightly controlled. All that sort of thing. But I was never really a fan of the State. I always felt it was overrated, and not quite as represented.
Know Your Statists
They are all the same, in that they believe governing others to be legitimate, but although I have said a statist is a statist, and “left” and “right” are not relevant, there are times it helps to know how the statist sees itself.
Hard-Won Homeschooling Freedoms Are Under Threat and Must Be Defended
I sometimes wonder about the courage it took those earlier homeschooling parents to remove their children from school before it was fully legal, to chart an alternative education path for their children when they were often the only ones on that road. I sometimes wonder if I would have had the same courage.
Feminism or Masculinism? Neither…
In light of the many and varied types of unfairness that both men and women endure today and have endured throughout history, I can’t say that one gender has been treated more unfairly than the other. Both are and have been treated like shit for the benefit of others. But maybe we can agree that the one group of people that is and has been treated the most unfairly… is children.