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Raising Children
Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children
Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
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On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction
The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value
How To Bore The Children
Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents
Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature
Children Full of Life (2003)
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
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Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it
Schooling the World (2010)
Play Again (trailer)
The Case Against Grades
The Case Against Competition
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Meet the School That Hates Rules
No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!
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Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food
Can You See It?
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The Lie We Live
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The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism
Fall and Winter (2013)
Money & Life (2013)
A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)
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The Corporation (2003)
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)
Requiem For The American Dream (2015)
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The Crisis of Civilization (2011)
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How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
Liberation Theory: a Working Framework
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
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The Polarization Trap
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Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
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