I’m excited to announce the release of my newly published children’s book, Little Pig and the Search for the Sky. About a year ago, I heard a (not so) fun fact about pig anatomy: pigs are unable to look directly up because of the way their necks are built. That immediately sparked a narrative about a poor pig who has […]
Though it may not be stated directly as a fundamental tenet of anarchism or libertarianism, to be anti-censorship very much aligns with the kind of “live and let live” approach to parenting I promote. Censoring individuals’ speech leads to dishonesty and distrust. It’s important to always let your children speak their mind, but I think it’s also important to let […]
One way to shift our perspective from the mainstream parenting paradigm is to look at it through an economic lens. Sounds kind of boring, right? This kind of parenting economics isn’t based on collective logic and boring data points, it’s based on praxeology, or human action, which is the study of purposeful human behaviors based on individual desires and […]
Reading with our children is crucial for so many developmental reasons, but two important reasons are the time we get to spend with our children and the connections they make between what they read and what they experience in the real world. We all want to impart certain values to our children. Some of the most important values I hope […]
One of the main tenets of the philosophy here at Modern Times is a principle known as the NAP. No, not the sweet, sweet, quiet, time you get when the little ones are sleeping in the afternoon. This NAP is the non-aggression principle. It can be defined as the idea that the act of initiating aggression onto another person or […]
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