Christian arguments against the Pearls' teachings.
The Riggs family is also taking Mr. Pearl to task for his comments about adoption in the 2nd part of today’s blog post. They are commenting on Mr. Pearl’s blog. I can’t help but wonder what his reply will be. I have yet to see him to apologize or retract a statement.
I see that Mr. Riggs believes in spanking so I will tag this accordingly.
Lorraine from All Are Precious In His Sight has written an impassioned blog post called Man vs. God which is a response to Michael Pearl’s advice regarding adopting and fostering children. Apparently, he is scaring away prospective adoptive and foster families with his advice which is in no way Biblical.
ThatMom has some very interesting articles I would like to highlight:
Are They True or False Teachers? How can we tell?
Slander, Libel, and Gossip, Oh My! How should we respond to false teachings?
I feel obligated to post the information that the Pearls are working on a new book about protecting children from sexual abuse. Debi Pearl posted that info on her blog at http://www.debipearl.com/blogs/blog/1740302-cultivating-cautious-chicks-protecting-children-from-predators. I found this post through my Google Alerts which hit a thread on Free Jinger about how said blog post was altogether wrong in its information about chickens. http://freejinger.yuku.com/topic/2475/t/Pearls–Writing–New-Book—Know—Chickens–Children.html
I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about this news. I believe that many of their teachings do make a child vulnerable to abuse and therefore is is good that they are addressing that. I hope that the advice they give turns out to be useful advice and will end up protecting children rather than hurting them more as much of their advice does.
Here is some advice on how Grace-ful Parenting of Toddlers by a mother who has already been through this and is now the mother of adults.
I feel that I should explain why I haven’t been posting lately. I try not to say anything unless I have something to say. I continue to search daily and post when I find something of interest.
While you’re waiting, please go back and check out my old posts. My oldest posts have many good links so this should keep you busy for a long time. If you find any broken links, please let me know. (I am aware that many of the news stories are no longer available for free and have an alternate link posted on that page. I leave the non-working links up just in case anyone should ever want to purchase it. Future news stories will be pasted in, I have learned my lesson.)
Now, this blog is principally about the Pearls’ teachings, but ever since I began it, I have have also offered arguments against alternatives to corporal punishment. This brings me to today’s link:
GreeneGem has a very interesting post about Approximation of Behavior which explains why children should not be spanked for making messes when trying out new skills.
I found this secular blog entry which I found interesting. It links to the Salon Article about the Pearls, discusses it a bit and then goes on to look further at the Blogger’s own observations of how the Pearl’s advice is abusive by definition. She compares it to the well known Cycle of Abuse seen in marriages.
C. L. Dyck of Scita Scienda has started a new Bible Study series about being a women called, Woman In The Hands of God.
She does not yet have an index for this series, but she does have a tag. So you can find the entire series so far by using the Woman In The Hands Of God Tag.
I have 2 interesting book reviews for 2 books that were recently published about the patriarchy movement. I do not think that the Pearls are directly involved in this movement, but their names to tend to come up and it appears that Debi Pearl was interviewed for the first book:
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement: 3 Stars by ThatMom
Quivering Daughters – Hillary McFarland on Patriarchy by Barbara from Mommy Life
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