Once again requesting people don't refer to mean spirited assholes or bullies like Musk or Trump as "babies" or "children".

Children (and babies) are generally awesome, curious, caring and sensitive beings. Most importantly: they are learning.

They notice when we use words that refer to them as insults or with derision. They wonder what is wrong with being a child.

There is NOTHING wrong with being a child.

Please do not perpetuate #Ageism or #AdultSupremacy with careless language.

Thank u!

The pandemic lockdown and my maleness meant that I didn't really get a lot of in-person advice about parenting. I relied on books to be a father and equal parent to my child. One of my favorite books is The Whole Brain Child by Dr. Daniel Siegal and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson. They wrote another book that I just finished: No Drama Discipline

Full Blog Post: http://bookish-and-speculative.blogspot.com/2023/07/no-drama-discipline-by-daniel-segal-and.html

#AdultSupremacy, #DanielSiegal, #GentleParenting, #NoDramaDiscipline, #Redirection, #Teaching, #TinaPayneBryson

Algorithmically-driven helping work (#education, #socialwork, #youthwork) further entrenches the power of a few wealthy adults.

https://publicfragments.org/2023/05/05/algorithmic-helping/

Transitioning leadership practices aim to give it back.

https://publicfragments.org/2023/05/06/transitioning-leadership-as-outcome-and-pedagogy/

We need to confront the former in many ways. The latter offers us one strategy.

#leader #pedagogy #algorithm #ai #power #oppression #adultsupremacy

I believe strongly that young people ought to have a say in decisions and policies that impact their lives. Our societal and psychological commitment to adult supremacy often blocks that opportunity.

My work is dedicated to working through those challenges to transition leadership of groups that serve youth into the hands of young people themselves.

➡️ I call this work Transitioning Leadership and recently posted an example of how I did this in a college class. Key: tools to gain orientation to the agenda setting / decision-making context and mentored practice.

🔗 I wrote about it and also link to the full curriculum of a course where I practiced it.

https://publicfragments.org/2023/05/06/transitioning-leadership-as-outcome-and-pedagogy/

#teaching #education #leadership #democracy #youthwork #youth #socialwork #adultsupremacy

Pay attention to the way Musk fans and opponents mock and characterise each other.

You'll notice the #AdultSupremacy and #ageism that we have normalised.

Words like childish or baby, lazy tropes about childhood are flung as attacks revealing the way we think about the young.

Kids are generally kind, bright and curious. They do not deserve to be used as insults.

You might not notice, but they do. And when you insult someone by calling them a child, they wonder how you really feel about them.

#AdultSupremacy Let’s talk about it. Blue poster depicting how #WhiteSupremacy requires the destruction of children

@davidkaye @mmasnick I call that #adultsupremacy, and it's a serious problem.

What I am currently reading and reading next.

So in the past few weeks I've listened to a couple of podcasts by @srslywrong on adult supremacy / youth liberation. One which had as a guest Pearson from @coffeewithcomrades. Prior to this I was rather clueless on this, but it all made sense to me and was amazed it had escaped me for so long.

So as I follow-up a couple days ago I started reading "No! Against Adult Supremacy - Anthology" by Active Distribution which contains 20 issues of the Against Adult Supremacy zine full of various essays and interviews. I had been reading the interview with carla bergman in issue 2 and then at work was listening to Ep. 180 of
Coffee With Comrades - "Solidarity Begins at Home" with ... carla bergman. Is the universe trying to grab my attention? As it just happens, the next book on my reading list is in fact "Trust Kids!" by carla bergman published by AK Press which I am now really, really, looking forward to reading once I finish this current anthology. But currently just finishing Issue 3 of "No! Against Adult Supremacy". So far each issue has had a number of relevant insights to me, or at least a connecting together of separate lines of thought I had been aware of but not connected in the way they are here. One essay that has really struck me (as a so called adult) is "You Did Not Turn Fine" by James C. Talbot. "Struck" as in a flash of realization regarding my own upbringing and result. So would highly recommend these collections.

#ageism #YouthLiberation #AdultSupremacy #TrustKids #books