Listen "339R_The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting (research summary)"
Episode Synopsis
Are you interested in bringing up the next generation as sovereign individuals for better urban futures? Summary of the book titled The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting from 2025, by Aaron Stupple.This is a great preparation to our next interview with Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin in episode 340 talking about the challenges and opportunities for the next generation in creating the future of cities. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how we can nurture the next generation of thinkers and city-influencers. This book presents a radically noncoercive parenting approach based on Karl Popper and David Deutsch’s ideas to create win-win scenarios and foster the children’s knowledge acquisition.Find the book through this link.Connecting episodes you might be interested in:No.114 - Interview with Kelly Boucher about involving the next generation in educationNo.268 - Interview with Tiff Williams about kids expressing their opinions about their environmentsNo.337R - Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities andchallengesNo.338 - Interview with Alison Watson about involving the next generation into the built environmentYou can find the transcript through this link.What was the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link).Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
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