Posts Tagged ‘The Pearls’ Teachings’
Review of No Greater Joy Child-Training Doctrine
Scita>Scienda has finally released their eBook, Parenting In The Name of God.
Read MoreTTUAC and Child Abuse
Robin of Heart of Wisdom has a nice synopsis of the Dangers of the Pearls’ teachings in Pearl’s To Train Up A Child And Child Abuse. This is a good post for sharing as it contains the Action News Report as well as quotes from TTUAC and a lot of links for further study.
Read MorePearl Theology
Scita Scienda has a new post about her take on the Schatz tragedy and the spanking controversy in Notes on a Child’s Death.
Read MorePondering the Pearls’ Teachings – Part 10
Under Much Grace has published part 10 of her series Why Good People Make Dangerous Choices: The Schatz Family is Not Unique: Why People Make Dangerous Choices (Pondering Pearl and Lydia Schatz) Part X In this post she focuses on Philip Greven’s book, Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact…
Read MorePondering the Pearls’ Teachings – Part 9
Under Much Grace has published part 9 of her series Why Good People Make Dangerous Choices: Using the Milgram Study to Understand How Pearl Becomes Appealing: Why Good People Make Dangerous Choices (Pondering Pearl and Lydia Schatz) Part IX
Read MoreResponses to Our Critics
pFamilyGal considers the question of whether it is right for Christians to condemn the Pearls’ teachings in Called to Judge. Pearl In Oyster (PIO) responds to her critics in More Thoughts on Biblical Parenting where she discusses Divine Punishment vs. Grace, Spanking for Danger Situations and the Rod Verses.
Read MoreAnalyzing the Schatz Tragedy
Cindy, from Under Much Grace, analyzes what causes people like Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz to harm their children in a new series: Why Good People Make Dangerous Choices (Pondering Pearl and Lydia Schatz) An Introduction Part I: Virtue In Place of Unquestioned Obedience. Part II: How Dehumanization (and Declaring War Against Family Members) Causes Moral…
Read MorePositively Feminine’s Review of TTUAC
Brenda King at Positively Feminine has posted a review of To Train Up A Child. This is an excellent review containing quotes from the book and Biblical arguments against the teachings.
Read MoreLetters to Dobson
Discipleship Parenting wrote a Letter to Dr. James Dobson. It is a lovely letter, you should take a look at it. In it she gives a testimony of how his teaching on spanking hurt her family and how they found something better. She got a reply from Focus on The Family defending their stance. She…
Read MoreSpanking is Wrong
Molly explains why spanking is wrong according to the Bible.
Read MoreSpanking is NOT God’s Will Part 3
( Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) I finished Samuel Martin’s book, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me today. Here’s more of what I have learned about God’s Word. Many Christian advocates of spanking children quote the following Proverb in order to support their philosophy that spanking children will save their souls from Hell. It says:…
Read MoreSpanking is NOT God’s Will Part 2
(Part 1) After reading and studying more today in this wonderful book by Samuel Martin and doing my own Bible study, here are some things that God has revealed to me. First, the book of Proverbs is the oldest book in the Holy Bible. While King Solomon and King Hezekiah wrote most of Proverbs, according to Martin’s…
Read MoreSpanking is NOT God’s Will Part 1
I am reading a wonderful book by theologian, Samuel Martin, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me. It’s clear from historic, contextual, Hebrew info on the book of Proverbs that we are NOT to spank (hit) children. The book of Proverbs was not meant for verses to be taken out of context. Even Jewish…
Read MoreAnother pro-spanker speaks up
Another negative book review of TTUAC by a pro-spanker. I’m praising God that more people are taking a stand against this book. Jenni Lenc has good insight as to some of the major problems with these teachings, although she is careful not to be too harsh in her condemnation of them. A very good piece…
Read Moretotal depravity theology
Elizabeth Esther looks at How the “I am a worm”/total depravity theology hurts children. She links this belief with abuse and makes some good points.
Read MoreEmail to a Church
Someone on a message board has graciously given me permission to share the excellent email she sent to a church to explain why she would not be returning. I thought that someone could use this as a jumping off point if they ever need to write a similar letter. Hi _____, Thank you for the…
Read MoreSuzanne’s Testimony
I just found a lovely new testimony and argument. Drop The Training and Regret Less by Suzanne Parker
Read MorePro-Spankers’ arguments
Michael Pearl alleges that only those who are anti-spanking oppose his teachings. He has no idea how wrong he is. For your convenience, here is a compilation of arguments and concerns from Christians who approve of spanking: To Train Up A Child (Book Review) by Tina Jobe To Train Up A Child: An Examination of…
Read MoreZooey’s Arguments
It began with a feeling of uneasiness….. I started to read what had been described to me as a “Christian book for women”. That seemed OK. I mean, I am a Christian woman. But I rapidly became more & more uncomfortable with what I was reading. There was a coarseness about it that jarred with…
Read Morelink to Problem With Cheerfully Punitive Parenting
I just added The problem with Cheerfully Punitive Parenting from Simple Gifts to Arguments against The Pearls’ Teachings
Read MoreIn Depth Analysis of Pearl’s Teachings
To Train Up A Child: An Examination of the Pearl Method by Rey Reynoso who had done a great job of digging deep and analyzing the Pearls’ teachings using the Bible to refute them. Parenting in the Name of God: Introduction from Scita > Scienda Note: This is the 1st in a series. Lydia The…
Read MoreConcerns About The Pearls
The letter I sent to my pastor about the Pearls. By MarynMunchkins Dear ***, This morning’s message was wonderful. I love how you bring grace and mercy into every message, and call legalism and self-righteous behavior what it is. It’s truly a blessing to listen. Unfortunately, my husband had an experience this week which was…
Read MoreArguments against The Pearls’ Teachings
On The Pearls and Parenting by Tulipgirl Michael and Debi Pearl’s No Greater Joy Ministries: A Look at the Basics From Allthings2all by Catez Michael Pearl on Original Sin: An Analysis From Allthings2all by Catez Concerns about the Pearls A letter to a pastor By MarynMunchkins Salon’s article about The Pearls by Lynn Harris Child…
Read MoreArguments against Spanking
Is Spanking Biblical? By Carol Avoiding Millstones (An Open Letter to Those Who Advocate Spanking) by Rebecca Prewett Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child? by Aurelia Ann Thy Rod and Thy Staff… By Jennie Hall Biblical Discipline: Conclusions by Laura Moody who was a “Contact Mom” for GFI from January 1999 to August of 2000.…
Read MoreResponses 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…
Read MoreAmy’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…
Read MoreDanielle’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…
Read MoreJo’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…
Read MoreKathy Thile’s Arguments
“The Pearls believe that training is a separate thing from teaching and discipline. They start very early using a switch to inflict pain…to train babies to avoid things the parent wants the baby to avoid…just like a behavioral psychologist might use electric shocks and rewards to train rats to navigate a maze. In my opinion…
Read MoreThe Disobedience of Man and The Consequences
Even if The Old Testament did say to hit children, it also says to sacrifice animals and to stone rebellious teenagers (and other sinners). So, anyone who spanks (or strikes) their children is living under the Law and therefore, not under Grace. If we are living by Grace, we must apply grace to our children.…
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