Living with Children

In our investigations, we wish to understand what it is like to live with children. By defining our subject as this, we immediately limit it in important ways. There are some questions we will not ask. For example, we will not begin by asking "What is a child?" for that would involve "looking at" children and generating a descriptive list, based on, say, our previous and present observations, and those of the "child experts." And we believe there is a hidden yet powerful misunderstanding in such a question because, in a sense, by them selves children do not exist. They only exist for and in relation to someone else-parents, teachers, each other.