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October 2013

October 20, 2013

Michael Pearl Is Not Original

Michael Pearl's To Train Up a Child is not original, not in the least. It's...

October 19, 2013

Freaking Out over Adolescent Rebellion . . . during WWII

I'm really tired of the scare tactics and the animus directed at adolescents. I'm tired...

October 16, 2013

Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse Gets in the Way, Says WORLD Magazine’s Andrée Seu Peterson

Evangelicals have a child sexual abuse problem, but some of them don't seem to want...

October 15, 2013

The Radical Notion That Children Are People

It's often been said that feminism is the radical notion that women are people. When...

October 08, 2013

Be Still My Heart: Crushes and Guy-Girl Friendships

When it came to crushes, I had exactly two options: Crush on the homeschool boys...

October 06, 2013

The Botkins: Don’t Let Children Roll Their Eyes

And there it is. For the Botkins, it's not just actual obedience that matters, it's...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

A Sibling Tussle: Empathy and Problem Solving

So. I've given you all an intense couple of days. Today we take a break...

September 17, 2013

Lesbians, Satan, Hitler: Debi Pearl Responds To Criticism

I'm glad to know that the Pearls are finally facing criticism from within the Christian...

September 17, 2013

The Father-Removing Gay-Procuring Child Abuse Racket

I promised in my earlier article on Stephen Baskerville's Faith & Reason lecture that I...

September 13, 2013

World Magazine Minimizes the Twelve Tribes’ Abuse

I grew up on World Magazine. It's evangelical and conservative, but it really was fairly...

September 13, 2013

HSLDA, American Homeschooling, and the Twelve Tribes

For anyone interested in the international influence of Christian Right and the Christian homeschool movement,...

September 10, 2013

Guest Post: A Confession

A Guest Post by Tim. In youth group, we’d periodically be divided up into boys...

August 2013

August 08, 2013

On Bad Logic, Abortion, and Children’s Rights

Which brings me to another point: The idea that pro-lifers believe that children only have...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Sally’s First Kiss and The Princess and the Kiss

When I was a teen, I did a lot of babysitting for other homeschool families....

July 20, 2013

Scott Brown, Ladies Against Feminism, and Eugenics

Teddy Roosevelt's paean to parenting---the one quoted by Scott Brown and Ladies against Feminism---is fraught...

July 13, 2013

Bearing Babies for God

Why have babies? This question seems to be an important one in a generation where...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Gentle Discipline and Shades of Formula Parenting

There appears to be a growing trend in some Christian homeschooling circles away from corporal...

June 19, 2013

Why We Give Parents Power

How do we protect children from the smaller things that are not legally considered abuse---the...

June 17, 2013

Are Children an Oppressed Class?

I've often heard that children are manipulative, but it just occurred to me that being...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

The Thaw, Evangelical Teens, and Persecution Complexes

I recently came upon a video from Christian youth outreach group Reach America. In it,...

May 11, 2013

“One More Never Made a Difference”

I grew up in a very large homeschooling family, and people were always surprised when...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Dear Pearls: Crying Is How Babies Communicate

I spent an hour this evening at the park with Sally and Bobby. I put...

April 23, 2013

Trained Monkeys and Seeing-Eye Dogs

In his book, To Train Up a Child, Michael Pearl wrote that "If parents carefully...

April 22, 2013

HSLDA’s Defense of Child Abuse

HSLDA has made a name for itself defending parents' right to spank their children---an odd...

April 16, 2013

Saving Children from Africa: A Quiverfull Adoption Fad

Remember how little Lydia Schatz, disciplined to death by her parents, was adopted from Liberia?...

April 14, 2013

I Am in a Huffington Post Article on Children and Politics

This week I appeared in a Huffington Post article on children's voices in the marriage...

April 10, 2013

“So What Do You Do?”

I think my reticence to start with the "so what do you do" question when...

April 04, 2013

Judaism 101: Born Jewish?

While my Judaism 101 series will return with thoughts about the nature of hell and...

April 02, 2013

Narnia and Tolkien, Yes. Harry Potter, No.

My parents didn't allow Harry Potter books in the house, but read both Narnia and...

April 01, 2013

I Was Grace Evans; Or, Using Children as Political Props

When I first heard about an eleven year old girl's speech before a Minnesota hearing...