Parenting & Anarchy in Practice
I'll preface this by stating that I'm probably not an anarchist but I think that there's a fair bit of crossover with my views and you'll probably have an interesting viewpoint.
We were driving back from school and ended up in a discussion around violence, where I stated that the state maintains a monopoly on violence because ultimately that's how the will of the state is enforced.
I was hit with an excellent question of "why should we do what you say?" which is a surprisingly difficult question to answer to a seven year old. Especially as we'd just agreed I couldn't use violence to get him to do something.
My hastily thought out answer was that his brain wasn't fully developed and as such we as parents had a responsibility to set boundaries, limit actions, enforce behaviour etc.
It made me curious as to what you believe and practice on a day to day basis.