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. www.stephankinsella.com http
Libertarian Parenting – A Freedomain Radio Conversation with Stephan Kinsella
#1 by TerrierBram on June 5th, 2011
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Your daughter is so adorable … must be hard job to avoid spoiling.
#2 by madderbass on June 5th, 2011
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@LordMigit Is the Montessori method similar in nature to democratic education?
#3 by tapary on June 5th, 2011
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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!
#4 by capitalist4life on June 5th, 2011
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Yeah! Fuck homework!
#5 by axmasta on June 5th, 2011
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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!
#6 by axmasta on June 5th, 2011
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“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.
#7 by omitsura on June 5th, 2011
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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.
#8 by utubehayter on June 5th, 2011
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@LordAgonis Wrong! But I am not surprised. A whole lot of garbage goes on under the name of libertarianism. I expected something like “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” Cato-ite response. But at least you seem to be hayekian type liberal (not libertarian).
#9 by LordAgonis on June 5th, 2011
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@utubehayter individual rights and spontaneous order, if i only had to name two
#10 by utubehayter on June 5th, 2011
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@LordAgonis Is that so? Libertarian think-tank huh? Okay, do tell what are the two basic principles of Libertarianism. We will continue after that.
#11 by LordAgonis on June 5th, 2011
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@utubehayter or you’re making a text-book logical fallacy in attempting to insult me rather than simply answering my question. i asked an engaging question that did not warrant that response. i am a research fellow for a libertarian think-tank so I doubt either is true.
#12 by utubehayter on June 5th, 2011
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@LordAgonis Either you don’t know what “parenting” means to good parents OR you don’t know what anarcho-capitalism is.
#13 by lordmetroid on June 5th, 2011
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My philosophy has always been to never done any homework unless one wants to do it because one is interested to learn what the homework provides.
Who cares if grades from the state indoctrinators are low, at least one have had fun getting low grades.
#14 by LordAgonis on June 5th, 2011
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isn’t libertarian parenting a contradiction to anarcho-capitalism? it appears to be more consistent with libertarian minarchism. shouldn’t children be free to self-organize?
#15 by davyjames on June 5th, 2011
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@evanparker Please expand upon this view
#16 by evanparker on June 5th, 2011
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this guy complaining about homework is just disgusting
#17 by TimothyBragan on June 5th, 2011
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Judging from his photos, Kinsella is a sexy man with an interesting development.
#18 by drew335533 on June 5th, 2011
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Oh yaaa, at about 19-21 talking about the kids fixing their own problems. That would NEVER happen in a public school, at least not the one I went to. They simply said, here is the punishment, live with it. No appeals, no negotiation, or anything like that. I would have loved to be at a school where they encouraged that type of behavior.
#19 by drew335533 on June 5th, 2011
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Ha reading! Hardly any kid that survived the public school system likes reading now. Couple of reasons, A) We are hardly given any choice in books we want to read. B) Most of the books we read are boring as hell. C) The books we read we usually aren’t given a chance to analyze it, we just go back to the school and take a content-orientated test. As a recent survivor of the school system, I would tell you NOT to send your daughter to hardly any school system.
#20 by drew335533 on June 5th, 2011
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Dude stef… Gosh, I feel the same way about children actually wanting to do homework. Let me tell you that an exteremely rare minority of kids K-12 actually have an interest in learning. Most kids hate it by the time they reach 3rd grade. This extends as far as philosophical knowledge, where most kids don’t like thinking critically as it was taught to them that thinking critically was work that was boring busy work not worth doing.
#21 by drew335533 on June 5th, 2011
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Dude, stef.. If you think one hour a night is bad, you should see some other stuff. The public school systems used to OVERWHELM me with work, so much my parents usually had to help me. Also, I only went to public school for elementary school, so much of my other friends have hours and hours upon homework, most of which they find no reason in doing. I have such a problem with the school system, all most kids do is just busy work, which they find no pleasure or success in.
#22 by drew335533 on June 5th, 2011
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Ya jesus, I’m a coming senior in highschool, and I JUST learned time management in my junior year in school.
#23 by DaveDoggOwns on June 5th, 2011
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@DaveDoggOwns I’m reluctant to apoligize because you’re another one of those “let’s join the KKK to turn it into a human rights organization” kinda folk.
#24 by DaveDoggOwns on June 5th, 2011
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@karategirl96 As a public school teacher you are in fact do those precise things you accuse some kids of doing. You’re job exists because of the threat of force (hitting others), parents are forced to pay taxes for your job (taking things that don’t belong to me), and you disturbing the children’s ACTUAL self-directed educational process by talking about stuff they woudn’t of bothered to listen to if they had a choice (disturbing others by talking).
#25 by karategirl96 on June 5th, 2011
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@DaveDoggOwns CLEARLY you did not read my post very well. I do not agree with the coercive nature of school = I do not support the current model of the public school system. In other words, the public school system, in its current form, sucks! And how dare you…HOW DARE YOU..accuse me of hitting others, taking things that don’t belong to me or disturbing by talking. NO ONE has the right to accuse me of anything without proper evidence. You sir, owe me an apology.