Its all ur fault that i hit my potato son with a 15insh tube now hes crying:; now my potato son n i h8 u realy bad Im very serious
I just looked this up because it sounded too cruel to believe, but you're right Fiona, this book does exist.. I'm currently studying a developmental psychology subject, and have been learning about critical periods in a child's development where they need the most support from their parents to thrive and learn.. It's disgusting to me that this Pearl man thinks that 'a child's will must be broken in order to make them behave' by using such cruel means they may be too afraid to misbehave, but they're gonna be so much worse off throughout their whole lives I actually can't believe how many children have already been reported as murdered by parents who read that book it's counterintuitive to everything that parents naturally do to care for their children. What the hell were they thinking?
I know its hard to believe but I game to this point when I reasearch in why do people beat their children when I came across this video where it was written y do they beat their children to death because books told them to then I reasearched about the book and found out that 3 children got killed because of following this book . I got shocked as trough I got spankings quite a few from my parents to.when I promised that I woudnt at all spank my children push me trough to reaserch about this book . Watched few videos about them and more quotes reffering to the book I myself don't have a child but still disagree
I get you Fiona.. My mum smacked me when I was young, and used wooden spoons, belts etc. I'm not a parent either, but I won't be smacking my children. There are many other ways to reinforce good behaviour, and better ways of punishing. Still can't believe people didn't question this for themselves
I didn't read all of the stuff written in comments, but if I have children (which I most likely won't), I'd smack their hands or bottoms with my hands if they misbehaved nothing wrong with that if you aren't badly abusing them. Actions speak louder than words.