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He calls me, Zaza

have slowly learned to embrace and appreciate my children's resistance and defiance as primary expressions of self-determina-tion and autonomy against personalized authority and domination.

locked into their situation, declaring that the person thus immobilized has been freed from having to make choices and struggle. Choices and struggle, change and movement, she argues, are vital for freedom.

Oppression puts a ceiling on our imagination

They note, "When we face a new problem, we adults usually exploit the knowledge about the world we have acquired so far. We try to quickly find a pretty good solution that is close to the solutions we already have. On the other hand, exploration—trying something new—may lead us to a more unusual idea, a less obvious solution, a new piece of knowledge."6