I’ve read the book ... and then threw it away instead into the library-sale been, so I wouldn’t be responsible for someone else’s reading it.
Nonetheless, although I think the authors are profoundly in error about many things, the failure of the parents mentioned in the article to use common sense is not the fault of the authors.
Debi Pearl’s book for wives, Created to be his helpmeet, has some equally screwy advice. A friend of mine who is/was a Christian counselor told me that a lot of her clients have needed her help after reading that book.
My mother was the queen of creative attitude adjustment but we were never abused. On the other hand, a lot of the daily chores I had would probably be seen as abuse by today’s “experts”.
So is there any truth to this article? Is the book that bad? I had never heard of it until the first of these articles were posted here.
The parents should have had common sense? You expect too much in this day and age! :)
Good for you. I would have done the same.
Nonetheless, although I think the authors are profoundly in error about many things, the failure of the parents mentioned in the article to use common sense is not the fault of the authors.
Exactly. I tend to think that parents who read a book that espouses beating children into submission and other extreme forms of physical punishment, were probably prone to do so even without the book, the book was just further justification for them doing so.