Public service announcement
You guys have made me aware of many things going on in the country that I otherwise would know nothing about, now it is my turn.
This is one of the most digusting things I've ever come across. These people:
http://nogreaterjoy.org/index.php?id=27 have written a book called To Train Up A Child about training children the way God intended. You can read about it on Amazon, at least it is getting bad reviews, mine will be forthcoming.
The basic premise is you need to hit children with a whip starting at VERY young ages for very small infractions so that they will learn to obey without question. They say ALL children need to be whipped with a "rod." They call BABIES "tyrants" "terrorists" "whining, spoiled brats" and "devious", with "criminal minds."
They brag about how they whipped their own 4 month old with a whip for grabbing someone's glasses.(p.9). They even bait the child by holding the glasses out so they can hit her when she grabs them.
On p.60 they recommend whipping babies (5 months old) who cannot sleep and are crying, and to never allow them "to get up." On p.61 they recommend whipping a 12 month old girl for crying. On p.79 they recommend whipping a 7 month old for screaming.
On p.65 co-author Debi Pearl whips the bare leg of a 15 month old she is babysitting, 10 separate times, for not playing with something she tells him to play with. On p.56 Debi Pearl hits a 2 your old so hard "a karate chop like wheeze came from somewhere deep inside" him.
On p.59 they recommend whipping a 3 year old until he is "totally
broken."
On p.80 they say to whip small children on their bare skin until they stop screaming. "Don't be bullied. Give him more of the same." They say to continue whipping until their crying turns into a "wounded, submissive whimper."
On p.46 the Pearls say that if a child does obey before being
whipped, whip them anyway. And "if you have to sit on him to spank him, then do not hesitate. And hold him there until he is surrendered. Prove that you are bigger, tougher." "Defeat him totally."
They recommend pulling a nursing infant's hair if they bite while nursing (p.7), and tripping a non-swimming toddler so she falls into deep water to teach her to stay away from the water.(p.67)
These are just a few of the fine examples in this book. It makes me totally sick to think that someone would treat children this way. The fact that these people wrote a book to basically brag about how they abuse their children is horrendous. And people are following the advice in this book. If someone treated an animal this way they would go to jail for animal cruelty.
I am a big believer that children should be treated with the same respect that we treat other human beings. Just because they are little doesn't mean they are less than human. They have their own thoughts, feelings, wants, needs and those should be respected as we would anyone else's. I try to follow of practice of if I wouldn't do it to another adult, I won't do it to my son. I believe letting a child cry it out is child abuse, I don't even know how to classify hitting them and then letting them cry it out as infants. I lay down with my son every night until he is asleep. He falls asleep in the arms of the person who loves him most in the world. Think how much more trusting and secure he is than a baby that is hit and left to cry herself to sleep. UGH!
As if all this wasn't bad enough, here is a place where you can buy "the rod" to do your whipping. I feel truly sick, I couldn't sleep at all last night thinking about this. There are places to protest "The Rod" and many people are trying to get the book pulled from Amazon. I don't know how these people aren't in jail!
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This is one of the most digusting things I've ever come across. These people:
http://nogreaterjoy.org/index.php?id=27 have written a book called To Train Up A Child about training children the way God intended. You can read about it on Amazon, at least it is getting bad reviews, mine will be forthcoming.
The basic premise is you need to hit children with a whip starting at VERY young ages for very small infractions so that they will learn to obey without question. They say ALL children need to be whipped with a "rod." They call BABIES "tyrants" "terrorists" "whining, spoiled brats" and "devious", with "criminal minds."
They brag about how they whipped their own 4 month old with a whip for grabbing someone's glasses.(p.9). They even bait the child by holding the glasses out so they can hit her when she grabs them.
On p.60 they recommend whipping babies (5 months old) who cannot sleep and are crying, and to never allow them "to get up." On p.61 they recommend whipping a 12 month old girl for crying. On p.79 they recommend whipping a 7 month old for screaming.
On p.65 co-author Debi Pearl whips the bare leg of a 15 month old she is babysitting, 10 separate times, for not playing with something she tells him to play with. On p.56 Debi Pearl hits a 2 your old so hard "a karate chop like wheeze came from somewhere deep inside" him.
On p.59 they recommend whipping a 3 year old until he is "totally
broken."
On p.80 they say to whip small children on their bare skin until they stop screaming. "Don't be bullied. Give him more of the same." They say to continue whipping until their crying turns into a "wounded, submissive whimper."
On p.46 the Pearls say that if a child does obey before being
whipped, whip them anyway. And "if you have to sit on him to spank him, then do not hesitate. And hold him there until he is surrendered. Prove that you are bigger, tougher." "Defeat him totally."
They recommend pulling a nursing infant's hair if they bite while nursing (p.7), and tripping a non-swimming toddler so she falls into deep water to teach her to stay away from the water.(p.67)
These are just a few of the fine examples in this book. It makes me totally sick to think that someone would treat children this way. The fact that these people wrote a book to basically brag about how they abuse their children is horrendous. And people are following the advice in this book. If someone treated an animal this way they would go to jail for animal cruelty.
I am a big believer that children should be treated with the same respect that we treat other human beings. Just because they are little doesn't mean they are less than human. They have their own thoughts, feelings, wants, needs and those should be respected as we would anyone else's. I try to follow of practice of if I wouldn't do it to another adult, I won't do it to my son. I believe letting a child cry it out is child abuse, I don't even know how to classify hitting them and then letting them cry it out as infants. I lay down with my son every night until he is asleep. He falls asleep in the arms of the person who loves him most in the world. Think how much more trusting and secure he is than a baby that is hit and left to cry herself to sleep. UGH!
As if all this wasn't bad enough, here is a place where you can buy "the rod" to do your whipping. I feel truly sick, I couldn't sleep at all last night thinking about this. There are places to protest "The Rod" and many people are trying to get the book pulled from Amazon. I don't know how these people aren't in jail!
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