The Myth of Good Christian Parenting

This new book looks very interesting: The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families (Breaking the Cycle of Religious Trauma and Corporal Punishment) By Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis 

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Gentle Firmness, now available!

Maybe you saw Steph’s series which previewed here in 2011. It started with, Spanking is NOT God’s Will, followed by The Christian History of Spanking, The Effects Of Spanking and ended with Discipline Without Harm.   Well, she has turned it into a Gentle Parenting book which is now available!  You can either order the print version…

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Get a Free PDF of Samuel Martin’s Book

Author Samuel Martin says in his latest blog post that he is now willing to send a free PDF of his book, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me: Christians And The Spanking Controversy to anyone who emails him at info@biblechild.com to request it. Edited to add:  Samuel Martin says, I just saw on…

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More Responses to The Pearls

TulipGirl responds to Michael Pearl’s Response to the death of Hanna Williams in When Friends Defend The Pearls. In her response she links to another response which I had missed from Free By His Grace. The Sugar Mountain has an impassioned response to the Pearls’ teachings about the rod in Tragedy of the Rod (a…

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Good Parenting Resources

Dulce de Leche shares how she rejected the teachings of Ezzo and Pearl and what she replaced them with in Christian Parenting Books: How Our Bookshelf Grew. She then shares her Christian Parenting Books Recommendations which is a very good resource. And here are her Discipline Books Recommendations. Back in April she shared another very…

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