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May 2016

May 31, 2016

“She seems to have turned out pretty well!”

To every person who has ever had to claw their way past abusive or authoritarian...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

Sorting Out the Good from the Bad

Many of my commenters grew up in bad or abusive home situations, and as I've...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

Kids need rules! Right?

I am constantly surprised by how much I was taught as common sense child rearing...

July 07, 2012

On homeschooled children and being “well behaved”

"Is she homeschooled?" "What?" I stammered, looking up from the ribbon I was examining. Sally...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

“Post-Fundamentalist Motherhood”

Latebloomer recently wrote an excellent post called "Post-Fundamentalist Motherhood." I've often had readers tell me...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Authoritarian Parenting and Adult Children

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 08, 2012

The Fruit of Spanking: Rage and Shame

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 07, 2012

Hana Williams, Michael Pearl, and To Train Up A Child

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 07, 2012

Lydia Schatz, Michael Pearl, and CNN

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 06, 2012

Adventures in Parenting: On Reasoning with Toddlers

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 06, 2012

Parenting Is Not A Contest

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 06, 2012

Casting the Pearls back to the Swine

For the next couple of days, I'm going to be re-posting a number of posts...

March 05, 2012

The Pearls’ discipline dichotomy: Or, my day at the grocery

I was recently in a small local supermarket with my daughter. There were two other...

December 2011

December 03, 2011

Authoritarian Parenting and Adult Children

Writing on this blog is like watching synapses in my brain suddenly connect. I love...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

“For your own good”: The insidiousness of spanking

"I'm doing this for your own good." "Believe it or not, this hurts me more...

October 2011

October 07, 2011

How Many More Must Die?

And so it continues. Another child has died as a direct result of Michael Pearl's...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

Genesis, the Fall, and a Patriarchal God

Have you ever really stopped to ponder "the fall" as narrated in Genesis? I have....

August 18, 2011

Michael Pearl on CNN

CNN has investigated the case of Lydia Schatz, spanked to death by her parents following...

July 2011

July 12, 2011

The Fruit of Spanking: Rage and Shame

As I remember it, my parents didn’t spank me all that often. When I was...

June 2011

June 17, 2011

Casting the Pearls back to the Swine

It is a strange reality that Michael and Debi Pearls’ child training methods were driven...

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