Circumscribed Autonomy: Children, Care, and Custody
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 for a person’s creativity to discover how the world
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Want happier, healthier kids?
Offer them autonomy.
Massive new meta-analysis makes it plain:
In every culture, control leaves children worse off — but autonomy helps them people engage, learn, and grow. https://t.co/XmbVeLlHZ9
"If you could just change one thing in your child’s life, it would be to give them autonomy. Humans spent 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers. That’s where our brains evolved. That’s where we evolved in this context. If you look on lots of different continents, children have enormous amounts of autonomy in these communities, which implies that that’s
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