Libertarian Parenting - A Freedomain Radio Conversation with Stephan Kinsella

Two libertarian parents discuss how to best raise confident and freethinking children, including discipline without aggression, Montessori education, resolving conflicts and teaching skepticism and rationality. http://www.stephankinsella.com
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Category:

Education

Tags:

• libertarian
• parenting
• kinsella
• molyneux
• agorism
• unschooling
• montessori

[alique087]

@stefbot Who created the freedomainradio website? Now what does this have to do with parenting? Absolutely nothing. But I was always curious to which person(s) and/or company developed it.

[stefbot]

@alique087 I did, with some help from some friends...

[lordthawkeye]

Stef, your daughter needs to have a warning label put on her saying "Caution, direct eye contact will cause you to say 'awwwww!'" ^^

[stefbot]

@lordthawkeye haha too true!

[Panpiper]

As a child, I read a lot, including an encyclopedia. I have always known more than most of those who did their homework, because I studied the things I was interested in. Those who were forced to study, learned to hate learning. I was given plenty of homework but I never did any of it. I recognized it as being make work nonsense. I was beaten regularly for disobedience, and if that taught me anything it was a profound disrespect for authority.

[dodododa]

I work with kids. I think they're getting more and more dishonest because of all the restrictions their parents put on them. The kids find ways to deceive adults to get around the restrictions and do what they want to do. Only in recent year have I experienced so many kids passionately lying to my face. Their guilt mechanisms are completely eroded.

[macspud28]

When we're born we start off open and sponge like (wise) and from then on are taught/conditioned to be closed and uninterested (dumb/stupid) least ways, that is what most schooling and parenting leads to, if not very careful. Most schools are the worst place for children as they mostly stifle any innate talent and brain wash in stupidity.

[giddymoon]

Actually, during the time where parents were parents & taught their kids that that there are IN FACT repercussions for their actions & a healthy dose of fear keeps them from stupid choices ..we had a more moral society. As a freedom parent, with 4 wonderful teens..there is a lot of bad parenting advice given here. LIFE HAS repercussions..LIFE HAS PUNISHMENTS based on behavior..to not teach our kids this, is what IS causing all our problems, not the other way around.

[spw317]

"Remember son, Mommy is going to atheist hell."

hahaha

[TerrierBram]

Your daughter is so adorable … must be hard job to avoid spoiling.

[madderbass]

@LordMigit Is the Montessori method similar in nature to democratic education?

[tapary]

My son came home with a page of Christopher Columbus-related anagrams. After he solved a couple of them, his frustration level was quite severe. While this is certainly an interesting mental exercise for a 4th grader, he was truly upset, so we finished the task with an anagram solving application!

[capitalist4life]

Yeah! Fuck homework!

[axmasta]

I'm an 18 year old now, and I've always been one for respecting and admiring what is unique about my parents experience and knowledge and convictions, but what irks me to this day is when I'm put under the impression that I've been raised to become an independent, free-thinking adult...

...BUT then I'm given a restriction and not even extended the courtesy of knowing WHY.

That is not independence, and that allows for no nurturing of one's inherent deductive reasoning.

Keep it up!

[axmasta]

"Everytime I wanted [to restrict her], I'd really really think about why."

GOOD, cause thats the VERY first question a kid asks themselves, and then if there's no ready answer, they want to explore it for themselves.

Then, you either have a mess, an angry parent, or a seriously hurt child, or all three.

[omitsura]

Hey Stefan, I don't see what's the issue is with 1 hour of homework per day. In former soviet style/ Chinese school systems kids regularly did 2-5 hours of homework. Homework is much tougher as more material is covered (general emphasis on math/sciences) immigrants from those countries do quiet well here, in more relaxed schooling environment.