Responses to Created To Be His Helpmeet and other marital advice
Spunky’s Blog entry about Created To Be His Helpmeet The Pearls Respond to the Blogs by Spunky “Created to Be His Help Meet” discussion Today, I’ll let Mr. Pearl speak for himself… by Rebecca I feel sorry for Debi and Michael Pearl! from Emotional Abuse and Your Faith is debi pearl’s “created to be his…
Letter for Homeschool Leaders
TulipGirl sent me the following letter: Dear Friends, I would like to pass along this important letter penned by my friend, Mrs. Karen Campbell, regarding the recent death of Lydia Schatz. Her letter is filled with much wisdom. I would encourage you to pass it on to anyone you feel might benefit. March 1st,…
First Reactions
As soon as the news broke that Lydia Schatz’s death was linked to Pearl’s teachings, blogs started being written. Here are the first reactions to the news: Heartbroken. Angry. Again. By TulipGirl This made me cry today… By Rebecca Liberian orphan news that no one wants to hear from Smith Soup Beauty for Ashes: in…
The Schatz Story in the News part 1
Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz are now being charged with torture and murder after following Pearl’s training advice. Here are some news stories: Note: Many news stories removed from their paper’s websites can be found elsewhere. I’ll try to keep the links updated. Many can be found at the first 2 links. Religion News Blog’s news…
Sean Paddock
In March of 2006 Sean Paddock’s death was attributed to Pearl’s training advice. His mother was found guilty and the case is now going to appeal. Here is an article about the trial.
Paula Lilly’s testimony
This is my personal account of my experiences with following the advice of Micheal Pearl, author of To Train Up A Child I had many fears and apprehensions about parenting even before my first child was born. Many of them had to do with discipline. I was all too aware of what would be expected…
MN from Michigan’s Testimony
The first time I met someone who trained their child like Michael and Debi Pearl recommend my first child was around 6 to 9 months old. This older mother invited me to her house for a “Moms’ group”. We would sit for a couple of hours in her living room and, while we talked or…
Amy’s Arguments
The philosophical underpinnings of these kinds of “Christian” behaviour “training” models do not sit well with biblical theology. The more I read about Ezzo and Pearl’s behaviour modification techniques the more I am reminded of Behaviouristic psychology (the works of Skinner, Watson, Pavlov etc) Fundamentally, behavioural psychology advocates the use operant/classical conditioning for behaviour modification…
Danielle’s arguments
“What is “wrong”, IMO, about going strictly from a training point-of-view is that children are *NOT* dogs, mules, mice, etc. (Some could pointedly argue you don’t even need to train dogs with all this “pain”.) There is a future. We do not just need our children to be manageable *today*, we hopefully want them to…
Jo’s arguments
“You know, this is my very basic beef with Pearl and Ezzo, et al. This very basic concept that THEY (the parent) control the hearts of their children. Wow, how incredibly god-like. I was pretty sure that the Bible says only GOD can rule the hearts of his children. Controlling the hearts of our children…
