2006 March Archives
Thursday, March 30th, 2006Friday, March 17, 2006
For Sean
Our good friend Valerie has a very nice piece up HERE
It begins:
At a homeschool support group meeting I went to in the late 1990s, one of the mothers passed out copies of a book as suggested by the book’s writers. “If this book has been a blessing to you, why not make it a blessing to other parents? You can do what many are doing. Buy eight copies and give them to your friends.” My sister group-member had brought enough copies, and we all went home with copies of To Train Up A Child by Michael and Debi Pearl. I took mine out of curiosity, as my eldest son had already been through Desert Storm as a soldier. His younger siblings were already teens and about as trained as they were going to get.
UPDATE:
Our blog was on hold for a couple of days. But now that we are back, I wanted to add this important THREAD going on at Daryl’s blog
Daryl writes:
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL HOMESCHOOLBLOGGERS
What are you still doing there?
Some of the Pearls’ defenders say you can’t blame them for parents who take their advice to an unhealthy extreme.
Gena Suarez, publisher of a magazine for home-schooling parents that publishes advertisements for the Pearls’ books, said their teachings are often inappropriately used to defend child abuse.
“[The Pearls] are talking about something that would fit in a purse,” Suarez said. “The only way you can kill a child with that is by shoving it down his throat.”
*He also includes a pic of what the plumbing supply line looks like. (sigh)