# formerTCSer's TCS Meta Thread

**URL:** <https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407>\
**Category:** Unbounded\
**Tags:** taking-children-seriously\
**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407 "2021-11-12T02:22:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![formerTCSer](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/57b2e6/32.png) [@formerTCSer](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/formerTCSer)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407/1 "2021-11-12T02:22:11Z")

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**Topic Summary:** I am planning on discussing TCS on the forum. My plan is to start a separate thread for each article that I want to reply to, or for each main idea I want to talk about. I want to use this thread as a place to talk about the project as a whole, or get any feedback or criticism that relates to the project as a whole.

**Goal:** My goal is to learn about TCS and understand it better: I want to understand both what was good about TCS and also what flaws it had.

**Why are you posting this in Unbounded?** I would like to make sure that I get any criticism that people think is relevant or important. I don’t want people to feel like they can’t give criticism that is meta or off topic. So I think unbounded is the correct place for that.

**Do you want unbounded criticism? (A criticism is a reason that an idea decisively fails at a goal. Criticism can be about anything relevant to goal success, including methods, meta, context or tangents. If you think a line of discussion isn’t worth focusing attention on, that is a disagreement with the person who posted it, which can be discussed.)** Yes.

**Context:** I am former TCS parent. I was on the old TCS list, and tried to parent my children using TCS. I had some problems with doing TCS properly, which I mostly blamed myself for. I tried to read all the TCS information that was available, so that I could understand TCS and do it well, but I still had trouble. I think that I probably didn’t fully understand TCS. But I also think that there were actually some problems with TCS that I didn’t see at the time.

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**Author:** ![formerTCSer](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/57b2e6/32.png) [@formerTCSer](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/formerTCSer)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407/2 "2022-09-30T01:24:22Z")

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I started this thread almost a year ago, but I haven’t done what I planned. Now that the [TCS website](https://www.takingchildrenseriously.com) is back up (As @alanforr pointed out [here](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/david-deutsch-megathread/221/100)), I think this is a good time to start. I still want to use this thread for any overall or meta criticisms or comments that people have of the project.