![]() ![]() ![]() The renowned Black feminist philosopher bell hooks has written at length about liberative parenting. This is liberative parenting at its core: parenting that empowers the child’s own self. It means understanding power dynamics are present in the adult-child relationship and thus people who care for children need to be working towards undercutting that power differential-by scaffolding experiences for children wherein they learn their own voice and embrace their own agency. Parenting forward means rethinking traditional models for how parents and other adults are supposed to relate to children. ![]() It is “parenting forward,” as the visionary Cindy Wang Brandt calls the post-evangelical parenting movement she helms. Liberative parenting is parenting that aims to liberate children by empowering them. ![]()
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