What’s the difference between nudging and coercing? Plus: standing up for young people to other adults

The biggest part of SDE facilitation, and parenting, is knowing when and how to support the young people. But the lines between supportive nudging and coercing can be blurry, and is especially dependent on our relationship with the young person. In this episode, we explore what nudging can look like, when we would and wouldn’t nudge, and the complexities involved in figuring this out as adults in relationship with young people.

We also share a “spicy” situation and talk about the ways in which other adults often treat young people in the world, and how we stand up to them in defense of young people.

This shit is hard and complicated, and we are here just sharing how we do things and why. Please feel free to share with us how this looks for you — we are always up for feedback, ideas, expansions, or even (especially?) disagreements.