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jessesgirl

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Ok, so I love to read books...specifically parenting books. I like to get a little bit more that I may not have known out of each one I read. Right now I am reading "That's my son" by Rick Johnson....a very, VERY good book based on biblical principles.


What else, though? What parenting books have you found helpful?

List 'em here so I can check 'em out!
 

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For boys i would highly recommend:
Boys Passage, Mans Journey by Brian D Molitor

I absolutely love this book and its the only parenting book my husband has read from cover to cover!

He also has a version for girls called
Girls Passage, Father's duty

I haven't read it but i have heard it's an excellent book and if it's anything like the boys one i would highly recommend it also.

I also like a book called Kidwrangling by Kaz Cooke.
Although she is Australian and it's written in a very australian style so if your not used to the australian sense of humor there may be parts of it you simply don't understand.
However it is a good book none the same :0)
 
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illinoismommy said:
I think we had one of these a ways back .... hmmm.... but I can play again.... I have one for babies:

The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley (get it before your baby is born!)
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I second that, and add [SIZE=-1]The Happiest Baby on the Block.[/SIZE]
 
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None taken. But you can't believe everything you read online either. I've heard a few horror stories, and every one so far has been from somebody who took his teaching waay out of context. No offense Thankful4HIM.

Read the actual book yourself before you condemn it too harshly.. It's a short book. Cheap too. And I think it's very worth it- but I've been told I was wierd before. That's OK.
 
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Okay, let's look at chapter one, these are direct quotes,

"Careful training can make a dog perfectly obedient. A dog can be trained not to touch a tasty morsel laid in front of him. Can't a child be trained not to touch? A dog can be trained to come, stay, sit, be quiet or fetch upon command. You may not have trained your dog that well, yet every day someone accomplishes it on the dumbest mutts. ... Proper training always works on every child. "

After being compared to dogs, the next section is comparing training your children to training horses. This pretty much sets up his view on children and raising them. You are to treat them like Pavlov's dogs nothing but psychological responses.... not wonderful creations of Christ like you and I. A child is not a dog, or a horse, nor do their brains work the same way.

The next paragraph says, "When my children were able to crawl (in the case of one, roll) around the room, I ...
Place an appealing object where they can reach it, maybe in a "No-no" corner or on an apple juice table (That's where the coffee table
once sat). When they spy it and make a dive for it, in a calm voice say, "No, don't touch it." They will already be familiar with the "No," so they will pause, look at you in wonder and then turn around and grab it. Switch their hand once and simultaneously say, "No.""

Then we are told that it is training to switch a baby.... 6 months old. Not only are you to switch them but set them up for failure by placing an object that they are sure to reach for so that you can switch them. That is developmentally inappropriate and sick all at once.

He regularly uses manipulative language to say that parenting other ways is stressful but parenting in his sick and demeaning way is joyful and relaxing.... very cultish behavior.... and a lie, all at once.
 
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MsDahl said:
Nobody liked my list . I put a lot of effort into posting the images of the books...*sniff*

Just kidding y'all! I just want to bring some lightness to this thread before it gets all controversial on us in heah!
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Well I have read Playful Parenting from your list ... I've heard of a lot of them though.

I'll add Siblings Without Rivalry to the list
 
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