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Did Christian parenting book contribute to child deaths?
The Los Angeles Times ^
| December 28, 2011
| Carolyn Kellogg
Posted on 12/30/2011 5:01:11 PM PST by TheDon
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Heard about this on the radio recently. Talk about a smear job! The attack on christianity continues....
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:01:21 PM PST
by
TheDon
To: TheDon
Hana Williams, 13, died of hypothermia after allegedly being starved, abused and locked outside by her parents. Lydia Schatz, age 7, died after being repeatedly beaten by her parents. And 4-year-old Sean Paddock suffocated after his mother wrapped him in a blanket too tightly in an effort to keep him from getting out of bed.
Nothing there has anything to do with Christianity in any way shape or form.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:04:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: TheDon
Oh yeah - that parenting book. I can't understand why the Journalists left out the chapter on red-hot pokers thrust into the eyes of children that won't eat their vegetables.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:05:51 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Soon to be a man without a country.)
To: TheDon
Having never read the book myself I can only say this.
Yes it did only in that the parents did not understand what they were reading or did not have the ability to translate the knowledge they received. This does not mean the book is totally at fault but it is the catalyst.
In other words it would have been best they had never read it.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:05:57 PM PST
by
Morgana
(I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
To: cripplecreek
Agreed. Sounds like the opposite of christianity to me! Extremely bad parenting.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:06:40 PM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
To: TheDon
This is an old line Amish book, quite different than Catholic, Evangelical and mainline Protestant approaches.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:07:55 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(May Mitt Romney be the Mo Udall of 2012.)
To: Morgana
I haven’t read it either, but I can’t imagine it in any way that it promotes the behaviors exhibited by these “parents”.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:09:01 PM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
To: Dr. Sivana
Ooops! I was confused with a different book by the same title... sorry.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:09:35 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(May Mitt Romney be the Mo Udall of 2012.)
To: Morgana
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.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:09:52 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(I'm not being paid enough for this.)
To: Tax-chick
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.
To: Dr. Sivana
Nice tagline. Now if we can just get a decent candidate that can win. If there ever was a time for a true conservative candidate to win big this is it! There has not been such a good opportunity since the 1980 presidential election.
Where is our next Ronald Reagan when you need him?
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:16:11 PM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
To: Tax-chick
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”.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:16:15 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Tax-chick
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! :)
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:17:02 PM PST
by
Morgana
(I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
To: ChocChipCookie
That bad? Sounds like Dr. Spock had a better book than this!
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:18:54 PM PST
by
Morgana
(I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
To: TheDon
Some folks take an idea and carry it to wacky extremes or become overly literal about it and lose metaphorical meanings. It is difficult to believe the authors of the book wanted this.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:21:16 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: TheDon
What a stupid article. The book’s authors should sue the article’s author for totally misrepresenting the book.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:21:56 PM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: TheDon
I was skeptical too, although some mainstream works take a more authoritarian/punitive bent than others (like some of the very early Dobson books, now revised). But it looks like this one really IS in a serious contest with Spock for screwey, except from the other side.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:25:35 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: TheDon
I actually read the book and applied the very commonsense principles. Very sound advice about scheduling children for eating and sleeping. My household had happy and well rested children who were a joy to be around My kids are now teens but I still see how the simple principle of consistency still bears fruit
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:27:31 PM PST
by
happyhomemaker
(That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children)
To: Scotsman will be Free
That never happens in the US whether the criticism of the work is totally on target or grossly wrong. That pesky First Amendment, ya know. You can libel a person. You can’t libel a book — that’s not defined in law.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:27:59 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: cripplecreek
Nothing there has anything to do with Christianity in any way shape or form.Don't be naive. You icky Christians are evil. /sarcasm. LOL!
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:37:29 PM PST
by
writer33
(Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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