Guest post by Butler Shaffer. While driving on the freeway the other day, I saw a sign on another car urging me to “demand free energy.” Why the driver failed to include “free food,” “free gasoline,” “free designer clothes,” “free cars,” “free sex,” “free luxury home,” or any other whim was not made clear. This…
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The Grayness of Children’s Rights
Guest post by Wendy McElroy. Children’s rights confuse me. But, then, children’s rights and the issues that surround them, such as parental responsibility, have confounded a great many otherwise clear minded theorists. Some libertarians reach definitive conclusions that directly contradict each other. For example, in an article entitled “Taking Children Seriously & the Future of…
Self-Responsibility
A Four-Step Health-Care Solution
Guest post by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. It’s true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.It’s time to get…
Parenting Beyond Boundaries
Guest post by Dawn. To a Christian radical unschooler, our bottom line is that our children, regardless of their age, size, gender, birth order, giftings, issues, etc, are our fellow human beings and should be treated with the exact same dignity, respect, and consideration as any of the other seven billion people on this planet.…
Be Real
Guest post by Scott Noelle. Presumably, you want to be a respectful, creative, loving parent — and you’d rather not *ever* be coercive with your child. Wonderful! But what about those times when you’re just in a bad mood and don’t feel like being a super-parent? Must you sacrifice your authenticity, fake a smile, and…
A Man of Few Words
Guest post by Nicole, Unschoolers.org. My husband Ted did not come to the unschooling life as quickly or as easily as I did. It was kind of a long road for him, with some serious doubts and struggles along the way. So it’s been very cool to watch as he has become increasingly confident in…
Parents as the State
Written by Skyler J. Collins. Parents have a unique responsibility. They have the power to create life, and then the duty to protect it and raise it into a functioning adult. But can we say that this life that they create is theirs in the sense of materialistic ownership? I don’t think we can. If…
Sharing the Power
Nicole at Unschoolers.org talks about sharing power with her children. I like the way she puts it. If our kids are to exercise power over others, they must practice wielding it from an early age. After developing a proper respect of and responsibility using power, they are more likely to approach their own children as…
Chapter 29 – Raising Children Compassionately
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Five – Chapter 28 – “10 Ways We Misunderstand Children” by Jan Hunt 29 Raising Children Compassionately by Marshall B. Rosenberg I’ve been teaching Nonviolent Communication (SM) to parents for 30 years. I would like to share some of the things that have been helpful to both myself and to…