A Child's Defense for Adults

Blink Think Choice Voice

Intelligent Disobedience

In the concept of “intelligent disobedience” for children, where if an authority figure tells a child to do something wrong, the child is taught it is OK to say “no.”

Ira Chaleff, author of “Intelligent Disobedience - Doing Right When What You’re Told To Do Is Wrong” describes how to teach children to resist harmful instructions from adults in authority. It gives children the strategy of pausing and passing their thinking through the reasoning part of their brains before action. It is a brilliant and simple mental tool that lets children say “no” to things that make them uncomfortable.

Blink Think Choice Voice

My Lizard vs. Librarian post wasn’t so popular, but I will hearken back to it here. The exercise of BLINK THINK CHOICE VOICE takes a person’s thinking - not just a child’s - through the prefrontal cortex where reasoning occurs: the Librarian.

BLINK THINK CHOICE VOICE is helpful to adults, too.

When a nurse is told not to wear a face mask at the beginni…