Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, coach, and speaker with a fallibilist worldview. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 1990s after being surprised by the heated audience reactions she was getting when talking about children.

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Dennis Hackethal was extremely generous in translating this interview into German here: https://blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/kinder-ernst-nehmen-interview

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Taking Children Seriously
05:46 Are children rational?
08:08 Coercion
14:56 Education
26:01 Authority, discipline, and passion
30:41 The psychological harm to children
33:29 Dealing with toddlers
40:08 Are we too optimistic about uncoerced children?
47:38 Why is everyone wrong about children?
53:48 Child labor
56:43 Age of consent