Dare to Discipline

Rating:
Summary: Concerned Parent
Review: Book should be entitled "Dare to Hit Your Child with Whatever is Handy". Dobsen extolls virtues of his wife snapping their not yet two-year-old with a switch across the shins, can you imagine? He also attests that he received great benefit, as a child, by being spontaneously walloped by his mom's girdle, complete with buckles and straps.

The fact is, that spontaneous anger from a parent can be beneficial to a child, in seeing that his actions may set off undesired reactions. Yet, spontaneous violence sends an absolutely wrong message of physical superiority making "right" in a confrontational situation.

My children turned out quite well, I think with equal parts luck, love, and parental boundries. I didn't get anything from this book (I read it years ago) that I utilized in child-rearing, except a dedication to never hit my children.

Rating:
Summary: I have been converted to the ways of Dr Dobson
Review: I borrowed this book from a co-worker who used Dr Dobson's methods to raise her 2 ,now grown, children. I would recommend this to anyone with questions or concerns on any kind on displine. It changed many of the beliefs I had previously held on displine. Dr Dobson teaches how to incorporate displine and love and that the two go together.