Excellent, entertaining, experienced speakers are available to give
presentations and workshops on a wide variety of TCS-related subjects, to a
wide range of audiences. The following examples are not a complete list. If
you would like a TCS speaker on one of the following issues or some other,
contact TCS at:
Child-rearing Without Coercion: why parents feel compelled to coerce their children; why they need not feel that way; what common parenting practices are coercive and what is the positive alternative to coercion.
Taking Education Seriously: why freedom in the matter of academic study is inseparable from freedom in areas such as doing chores, bedtime, and everything else.
Challenging Everything: As unschoolers we've challenged the idea that school or school like activities are necessary. We have figured out how to trust and support our children's interests in many ways. But what about the unchallenged ideas we hold about what our children “should” do, be, say, imitate, own, or aspire for reasons other than their inherent value to their lives at this time and place? A session for experienced unschoolers.
The Problem of Parental Guilt: why parental guilt is bad for both parents and their children, and why parents should learn from their mistakes rather than beating themselves up for them. Includes guilt-busting ideas many parents find helpful.
The Psychology of Punishment: what is happening in the mind of the child being punished; the longterm ill-effects; why even the most subtle and “gentle” of punishments (such as time outs, making sad faces at children, and so-called “natural consequences”) are harmful; life without punishment.
Children's Rights: why the common arguments against according children the same legal rights as adults are mistaken
Child-led learning? Common mistakes to avoid if you are providing this form of education for your child.
Four Fallacious Arguments For the Elimination of Television
Time out -- time off or serving time?
Taking Children Seriously
Parenting For The Future
Children: Pets? Possessions? People!
What Parents Know that Isn't So
Inlaws, Outlaws, and Well-Intentioned Friends
The Role of The Unschooling Parent
Taking Autonomy Seriously
Extreme Measures: Children”s Responses to Coercion
The Illusion of Necessity: Coercion as a self-fulfilling prophecy
Rationality, Risk, and Roadkill
Gut-Feelings and Principles — Reconciling Parenting Styles
Everyday Violations: Children's Lack of Privacy
Unreasonable Parents — why spanking won't help
Paradigm Shift: conventional parenting styles meet TCS
The Search for Morality in Parenting
Why Parents Feel Compelled to Coerce Their Children
Beware the Curriculum Mentality: Excerpt
The Good and Bad of Going With Your Guts
What exactly is “autonomous learning”?
Non-Coercive Schools?
Video Games: Harmfully Addictive or a Unique Educational Environment?
An Epistemological Argument For Children”s Rights
The Effects Of Government Policies On Children: Abstract
The Implications of Popperian Epistemology For Educational Theory
Living With ATV? TCS may help.
Why Libertarians Should Care About Children's Rights
The New Educational Psychology: educational psychology in the light of epistemology.
“Thank you for showing me what a tyrant I've been. This is going to change my life.”
“An extremely interesting and entertaining workshop”
“Thank you for changing my life.”
“Brilliant speaker; world-changing ideas”
“I was deeply moved by what you said.”
“This is the most important workshop I have ever attended.”
“I am very anxious to learn more about TCS.”
“WOW! [...] ENTERTAINING!”
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