Samuel S. Martin has written an excellent resource for Christians seeking a soundly biblical basis for parenting without corporal discipline. The free e-book is available here, thanks to Samuel's generosity. Please consider donating to Samuel's on-going work which is ministering grace and mercy to many families. (He has no idea about that last bit :) )
Click here:
http://whynottrainachild.com/2013/06/22/download-martins-book/
That above link takes you to Why Not Train a Child, a clearing house of information and Christian arguments against the teaching of the Pearls. Great place to find gentle, sane alternatives to bringing up children.
http://whynottrainachild.com/
This book showed up at our church - when they had a visiting speaker from USA. Much to my horror. I picked it up, and on the last page, I read about how we should be bringing up our daughters to be "hidden women". Christian purdah. I alerted our church leaders. I'm sure they had no idea - our church has generally been pretty good at supporting equality. They just had no idea their visiting ministry would be laying such a book out on the table.
ReplyDeleteI mean, the awful To Train UP a Child - is the book that had the comment about girls being "hidden women" - obviously not Samuel Martin's book which is full of grace, common sense and based in Scripture. A breath of fresh air.
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