“Blanket training involves corporal punishment, and requires parents to place their baby on a blanket, “flicking” or hitting it with a “flexible object” each time it tries to crawl off. Michelle Duggar admitted to using this type of training method on the Duggar Family Blog in 2011, though she did not address the physical aspect of the practice.”
These people are sick.
What’s sick about it?
You want to know where that comes from???? From the book “To train up a child” by Micheal and Debi Pearl!!! Not kidding...listen to this........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIs1-4uj_zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtULDD-Tg1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EhG5Dr-Kbg
Listen to this one Olivia. In it Debi Pearl says, and in her book as well, that if your baby bites your breast while nursing you are to pull his/her hair to teach him/her to stop.
When my mom was young, her parents used a similar technique when they were working on their farm. Back then the rows were long and the younger ones were left on a blanket which they had to stay on for safety. She lived until 3 months shy of her 103rd birthday in 2007.
When my older kids were babies, my great aunt told me about the horrible way a friend of hers had trained her children. It sounded a lot like your description of “blanket training”. I guess it’s been around for awhile.
The big thing in our circle of friends about 15 years ago, when we all had our first child, was Growing Kids God’s Way. The way they all talked about it you would think the Ezzo’s had a special revelation from God. It never seemed right to my husband and me, but I felt pressured and tried the method a couple of times. Either my son was extremely strong willed or parents are willing to abuse their children to make them obey. No thanks.
They are not necessary “sick” but trying to find effective child rearing practices. When I was an unruly child, my father used a switch on me more than once. It was very effective at getting my attention. My own daughter didn’t need spanking after about the age of four. Verbal remonstrance was sufficient after then. There were a few techniques that I tried but quickly abandoned when they proved too harsh or ineffective when she was young.
This sure is different than being sick or worse, setting an unwanted infant out in the woods to starve to death, which was a standard action in some previous societies.
It also includes putting something the child wants just off the blanket.
Even more sick.
Teaching a young child to stay within a defined space (presumably for his/her own safety and to make sure he/she doesn’t wander off) is “sick” to you?