TRUST: We are in a crisis of trust the world over. Parents are afraid, and that makes our children afraid — to be who they are, to take risks, to stand up against injustice. Trust has to start with us. When we’re confident in the choices we make as parents, we can then trust our children to take important and necessary steps toward empowerment and

So the difficulty in raising children from instinct, in a culture that is much more dangerous for them than wild animals in a more “primitive” setting might be, is that you don’t really have any external rules of thumb to follow. Everything must come from within, creating a constant trial-and-error process in which you run the risk of finding out,

So what is it? Instead of focusing on rules, Taking Children Seriously focuses on fostering understanding. Parenting is the process of supporting a child until they understand the world well enough that they can support themselves. What is the best way to foster understanding? To provide freedom and security