Category: adultism
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Adultism is Everywhere
Think about it: First thing in the morning mom’s saying, “In MY house you will follow MY rules,” enforcing your sense of displacement in the world. On the way to school on the subway you glimpse at the headline of a magazine that says, “Look 20 years younger!” with a newspaper headline on the other […]
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Parenting a Free Child
There is no such thing as a “free child.” This myth has been carefully spread over the last forty years by authors and speakers and all kinds of people that I have admired for a lot of reasons – but not this one. The ideal of the “free child” seems to be the ultimately anarchistic […]
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Why We Can’t Wait
In 2000 I was working as the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction‘s Youth Ambassador position where I was responsible for coordinating the statewide essay contest for K-12 students focused on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I also met Sasha Rabkin, who has worked for the Institute for […]
Adam F.C. Fletcher 