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Summary: A Horrifying Book
Review: It is sickening that these authors have written a book advocating child abuse and call it 'Christian'. This book goes totally against Christianity and the Bible. The Bible teaches to raise your children with love and respect. This book goes far beyond reasonable spanking and discipline. It advocates beating your children in a manner which can only be described as blatant child abuse for the most petty of offenses. In some of the examples given, it is apparent the parents were beating the children for the pleasure of lording their power over their children, not because their children had actually done anything wrong. God have mercy on the parents who follow this book and on their poor abused children.
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Summary: Please Don't Abuse!
Review: It terrifies me to think some new parents might follow the Pearl's advise because of their "high profile" and "experience." Today their dicipline recommendations border on child abuse!! Please follow your instincts in infant and child rearing. If their advice feels like abuse, it's because it is! Fulfill your infant and child's emotional and physical needs. Please don't deny them this security, or beat them with "1/4" drainage rods," as the Pearls recommend. Guide them with love, compassion and the knowledge that their every need will be met, not beaten down out of the need to control as the Pearls instruct. I have trained my dog, but I lovingly guide, instruct and teach my children! Please do not follow the Pearls barbaric "child training" instructions!!
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Summary: Sick
Review: Parents need to smack themselves around a little bit if they think this is the way to raise a decent human being.
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Summary: What a Great Resource!
Review: Read this book if you want creative and entertaining examples of ways to train up a child in an atmosphere of love, Respect, and responsibility. Don't read the book if you're wanting support for bullying your kid with the rod. The Pearls emphasize teaching your child self-control, a skill they'll need all their life if you want them to live it happily. Just like in our adult world, consequences are recommended for unacceptable behaviors. For example, if a child is "stealing cookies", the Pearls recommend a course of actions that will make the behavior unpleasant, with a switching as the least important of those actions. The more important recommendations in the book require work and perseverance on the part of the parent. If you implement the Pearl's teaching of consistent training but leave out the corporal discipline portion of this book, you will still undoubtedly reap rewards in your child's behavior.
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Summary: Very Sadly Misguided people..
Review: The authors of this book are so sadly misguided, it is they that need help not the children they advocate abusing.
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Summary: Do you see yourself switching a 6 month old baby?!
Review: The Pearls teach parents to switch babies as young as six months.One reviewer here *admits* (and advocates) it. The word, "train up" is used over and over again to justify draconian parenting methods as "Biblical" but do those using "train up" know the Hebrew word used is "channuk" which is better translated as "dedicate" "Dedicate a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Draconian methods are not needed, nor are they mandated by Scripture. I have eight well-behaved children and do not come close to using the Pearls' outrageous (and likely illegal) methods of coercing children into submission. The Bible exhorts "Fathers do not provoke your children to wrath". He tells *children* to obey parents but nowhere does He tell *parents* to use unChristlike methods to *force* a child to be obedient!
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Summary: Discipline not punishment
Review: The Pearls' emphasis on training negates the need for most punishment. If you've ever witnessed a child throwing a tantrum in the grocery store or showing disrespect to his parents, you'll appreciate their Biblical approach.
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Summary: Please, don't waste your time or money.
Review: These people advocate physical violence towards infants as young as 4 months of age. Just because someone knows Bible verses doesn't mean they understand what love is.
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Summary: Please please don't buy this book!
Review: These people advocate the outright abuse of children. They instruct readers to whip babies as young as 6 months with leather belts. I implore anyone out there to please not buy or read this book. It is pure evil.
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Summary: BIBLICAL Training & Discipline Preachers Should Teach
Review: This book and the Pearl's subsequent child-rearing books are Biblically based and mirror the doctrinal stand of even the most stringent Independent, Fundamental Baptist church. The difference is the Pearl's SHOW the results, not only in the thousands that have been helped through the years, but in their own children, who are missionaries and church leaders. The Baptist people just "talk and criticize" it, but their Christian school students/graduates have little to show, but pre-marital PG, runaways, rebellion, and higher-than-thou attitudes. Baptists have much to learn from these godly people. Pastors should read this book with God's view in mind and not criticize the BIBLICAL stand the Pearls encourage and teach. We VERY HIGHLY recommend this book and its Biblical teachings.
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