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September 24, 2006

This would be torture in a POW camp

These tactics on mentally beating your children into submission would be a violation of the Geneva Convention if they were used in prisons. In the home, Family Ministries calls it it biblical parenting.

Should we be suspicious of a "ministry" when the first thing you see on their web site is the toll free number for credit card orders? Sales, not service, seems to be their primary focus.

I can think of few things worse than a child so meek that he is terrified to question his parents. Both of my kids know they can question me on pretty much anything at anytime. It's how they get smarter, it's how I learn to be a better parent. Faced with the potential of explaining your actions, you are sort of forced to have a good reason for them in the first place.

Transparency is good for government, and it's good for parenting too.

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The sad thing is that self-control IS a good thing, respect for your parents IS a good thing -- but you can't force-feed those things. I'm trying to un-learn my Ezzo brainwashing, while still keeping some semblance of order in our home -- a pretty tall order. I want my kids to be able to tell me what they thing, but I don't think it's too much to expect them do it with respect and without being rude. On the other hand, I can't browbeat them into it -- the only way kids can learn respect is to be treated with respect themselves.

Oops, need to proof before hitting send. Should be 'what they think'.

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