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Watch Thy Tongue
Dulce de Leche shares a post about our words and the power they hold over our children.
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Dulce de Leche continues her 10 Commandments For Parents series with The 10 Commandments for Parents: No Graven Image.
Read MoreGetting Children to Cooperate
Pearl in Oyster (PIO) continues her 52 Tool Cards series with a very helpful post about eliciting cooperation by observing aloud and playful parenting. Meanwhile, Dulce de Leche explains how we should Use Our Words carefully in order to make sure that our young children understand what we want from them.
Read MoreMore 52 Tool Cards Posts
Pearl in Oyster (PIO) adds to her 52 Tool Card series with 52 Tool Cards: Winning Cooperation and 52 Tool Cards Double Feature: Connection Before Correction and Closet Listening.
Read MoreColumn Warning About Pearl In The Daily Journal
Dorothy Dimitre has a column in The San Mateo Daily Journal about Pearl’s appearance in The Today Show and why spanking is bad for children: ‘Leave no marks!’
Read MoreUnderstanding Brainwashing and How Children Are Primed for Victimization
Cindy of Under Much Grace takes informative and very technical looks at abusive behavior, analyzing both the victims and the abusers. She has a new series about brainwashing. I want to make special note of part 7 in which she ties the information to the Pearls’ teachings. Here is a short summary which she wrote…
Read MoreCommandments for Parents
Dulce de Leche explains how some parents inadvertently set themselves up as idols in The 10 Commandments for Parents: No Other Gods. Alison Strobel explains Golden Rule Parenting.
Read MoreChristianity Today Article On Corporal Punishment Now Online
The Christianity Today Article I mentioned earlier has been posted to their website: Thou Shalt Not Abuse.
Read MoreThe Vision Forum’s Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy, 16-21: Education, Transformation, and Control
Note: This is an edited and collated version of a series of posts that I made at Free Jinger in August 2011. For much of my life, my encounters with U.S. fundamentalist Christianity were sporadic and bewildering. I started digging into the roots of the fundamentalist mindset when I became a homeschooler and a Sunday…
Read MoreLarry Williams Returns to Jail
According to a report in the January 7th, 2012 edition of the Skagit County Herald (only available in print or by paying for the “e-edition”), some of Larry Williams family members delivered Christmas gifts and letters from Larry to four of the children who are fostered by their aunt and uncle. There is a court…
Read MoreThoughts Of A Gentle Christian Mother
Alison Strobel shares how and why she became a Gentle Christian Mother and how it has improved her life.
Read MoreBig Emotions
Dulce de Leche explains the importance of feelings in Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Big Emotions. Pearl in Oyster (PIO) offers a 52 Tool Card Double Feature: Wheel of Choice and Anger Wheel of Choice. She also has some insight from Jeff VanVonderen about three Greek words for anger in the Bible.
Read MoreBail Increased for Larry Williams
According to Komo News, the bail reduction for Larry Williams was revoked in court today and he is back in custody. The article doesn’t exactly say that he is back in custody, but it implies it and his name is listed on the Skagit County Jail Roster.
Read MoreMotion Denied in the Hana Alemu “Williams” Case
The Skagit Valley Herald reports that a Motion was denied to suppress investigative photos in Hana Williams death case. The Williams did not give poor Hana any rights to privacy while she was alive and now they claim to want to protect her privacy. It looks to me like it’s really themselves they want to…
Read MoreChristianity Today Article on Corporal Punishment
Christianity Today Magazine has an article about Corporal Punishment in their January 2012 Issue which you might want to purchase. When and if they post it online, I will post a link to it. This article mentions Hana Alemu “Williams”, Lydia Schatz and Sean Paddock and the influence of To Train Up A Child by…
Read MoreSchatz Story #1 in the Paradise Post for 2011
The Paradise Post has released their top 10 news stories for 2011 and at the top of the list is the story about the Schatz couple pleading guilty. They mention that they case has remained in the news since. Pearl has garnered a lot of interest this past year, being on Anderson Cooper (on both…
Read MorePearl on NBC’s Today Show
Michael Pearl and The Spanking Controversy were featured on NBC’s The Today Show this morning. If anyone is unable to see the video for whatever reason, this article is pretty much a transcript of the show. Also see this article from NBC which contains most of the story as well as the video clip. The…
Read MoreTodayMoms discusses the Pearls’ Teachings
I heard a couple of weeks ago that Michael Pearl was scheduled to be on the Today Show. Well, I don’t know if this is related to that or not, but MSNBC’s Today Moms Blog is discussing his teachings in Controversy grows over pro-spanking book after abuse deaths. Update: Michael Pearl was on NBC’s Today…
Read MoreA Look at Shaming and More
Emily of Peace On Dark Nights has a post at Our2crazyboys Where She Talks About Shaming. I highly recommend that everyone read this and consider her words carefully. While we’re discussing gentle parenting, take a look at Pearl In Oyster’s (PIO’s) post about Silent Signals, you might find it very useful. This post is part…
Read MoreResponding To Children With Grace
Carissa Robinson shares What Really Matters in a beautiful story of how she responded to a screaming fit with grace.
Read MoreJobs for Young Children
Pearl In Oyster (PIO) looks at what Jobs one can expect their young children to do around the house.
Read MoreBill Gothard and His Definition of Grace
Cindy of Under Much Grace explains more about Bill Gothard and his erroneous definition of grace in Merging Justification and Sanctification: More About Gothard’s Thanksgiving Letter and Concerns About Grace
Read MoreAnother Abusive Church
Cindy of Under Much Grace reports on a Lutheran church in La Habra, California which reportedly had a man assigned to the task of disciplining teenaged boys with a metal rod. This is the first time I have heard of a church Taking The Rod Verses Literally. Well, maybe not exactly literally, as the rod…
Read MorePearl and Esther on Anderson – The Video
Finally the long awaited video of Michael Pearl and Elizabeth Esther on Anderson: Part 1 in which Michael Pearl is interviewed and Elizabeth Esther arrives and explains why his teachings are wrong. Part 2 in which Michael Pearl explains more of his teachings and the audience responds. Part 3 in which D.A. in the Schatz…
Read MoreGentle Parenting
I have had so much to share lately that my Gentle Parenting posts have been building up. Here are some great posts to help you fill your Gentle Discipline Toolbox as well as encourage you in your Gentle Parenting. Claire continues her Myth Busting at Dare To Disciple with Myth Busting 8: Breaking a lamb’s leg.…
Read MoreHana and The Pearls in The Seattle Times
Jeff Hodson of the Seattle Times provides extensive coverage of the death of Hana Alemu “Williams” as well as the Pearls’ teachings in Did Hana’s parents ‘train’ her to death? I am grateful to see this blog mentioned and linked to in this article. Letters to the editor regarding that article are here.
Read MoreAC360 Continues to look at Ungodly Discipline
On Friday Nov 25, Anderson Cooper continued his look at Ungodly Discipline. Here is the video and here is the transcript. Also, here is more about Spanking in Christian Schools aired on Dec 1, 2011.
Read MoreThe Nicest People
What kind of people start (or join) cults? What is their motivation? Do they do it on purpose or by accident? Do they have any idea that they are involved with a cult? If these questions interest you, you will want to read this post by Cindy of Under Much Grace Hank Hanegraaff and the…
Read MoreMichael Pearl and Anderson Cooper
Michael will appear with Anderson Cooper on Friday Dec 2, 2011. I assume that this will be the long awaited episode of which Elizabeth Esther spoke. Meanwhile, Alexandra Ossola has made a petition asking the American Family Association to denounce the book To Train Up a Child as it advocates legitimized abuse.
Read MoreDisciplining the Adopted Child
Dulce de Leche has some more tools for your Gentle Discipline Toolbox: Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Physical Needs Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Play
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