Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Taking Children Seriously together with David Deutsch, a philosophy and movement against coercive parenting. She argues that children are full persons capable of creating knowledge, and that coercion — even when disguised as love — damages both creativity and relationships, follow Sarah on Twitter
We talk about coercion, education, freedom, parenting, happiness, and what it means to truly take children seriously. Topics are outlined in the timestamps below.
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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – Why civilisations overlook children
11:39 – Do we still lack the knowledge of how to raise children otherwise?
15:25 – Is coercion increasing in the way children are raised
27:28 – Inexplicit coercion, is it intentional?
30:28 – Rationalize your reasons to your children
33:03 – We experience the childhood coercion and do the same to our kids
36:56 – Does internal coercion precedes external coercion
43:57 – Teaching problem solving to children
45:46 – Balancing parental desires and child autonomy
56:08 – Coercion is not always wrong
1:01:57 – Raising children without an agenda
1:05:07 – Outcome oriented philosophies are mistaken
1:07:04 – The bucket theory of the mind
1:17:31 – Why having the right epistemology is crucial
1:31:40 – Optimism and pessimism in life
1:37:53 – The most important thing Sarah learned
1:39:24 – Advice to people
