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91 of 94 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely appauling.
First off, smacking or harming a child in anyway is illegal in the UK so I am absolutely disgusted to think that this book is allowed to be on sale.
Second this book basically condones beating your child, or using painful force to make your child obedient.
You do not decide to have children to make them become obdience slaves, making them seem happy but scared to show anything else just incase they would get smacked with a tree stump or thumped on the hand to hurt them.
I have a daughter myself and have never once had to smack or hurt her to make her behave, there are other ways of showing your children the correct way to behave-and although my daughter has her moments (as we all do including adults) on the whole she behaves like a total princess-and lets face it nobody is perfect.
I find it absolutely appauling that the people who have wrote this book feel it ok to justify this kind of behaviour towards their children and even more at the people who have actually published it. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Needless to say I am making a formal complaint to Amazon and any other uk store selling this book once I have written this review.
First off, smacking or harming a child in anyway is illegal in the UK so I am absolutely disgusted to think that this book is allowed to be on sale.
Second this book basically condones beating your child, or using painful force to make your child obedient.
You do not decide to have children to make them become obdience slaves, making them seem happy but scared to show anything else just incase they would get smacked with a tree stump or thumped on the hand to hurt them.
I have a daughter myself and have never once had to smack or hurt her to make her behave, there are other ways of showing your children the correct way to behave-and although my daughter has her moments (as we all do including adults) on the whole she behaves like a total princess-and lets face it nobody is perfect.
I find it absolutely appauling that the people who have wrote this book feel it ok to justify this kind of behaviour towards their children and even more at the people who have actually published it. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Needless to say I am making a formal complaint to Amazon and any other uk store selling this book once I have written this review.
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Currently there are several books available to buy on Amazon that advocate, endorse and advise on parenting methods that involve the physical abuse of children. Examples of titles include To Train Up A Child, by Michael and Debi Pearl; Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp; and Don't Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman. Such books, and other like them, promote behaviour which is abusive of children. All of the above books advocate the use of a rod and other implements on children under one. Such behaviour is abusive to children, and it is also 'offensive', which is contrary to your Content Guidelines. It may well also be illegal, as it seems to go far beyond the 'reasonable chastisement' currently sanctioned by law in the UK. Not only is beating on a regular basis with a rod likely to leave a mark, which is illegal, it is also likely to amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, which is a breach of human rights. We wish Amazon to urgently review their decision to stock any book or other product which advises the physical abuse of children.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The discussion on this book seems clouded by views that all spanking is always wrong. It is fair enough to hold that view, but it does lack discrimination. I think the problem with this book is not that it is pro-smacking, but that it is pro-abuse.
Reasonable people can hold differing views about smacking children, that is fine. But what I find disturbing here - and why I am astonished that Amazon sell it - is that the whole tone and approach of the book is to physically and mentally abuse children into submission. The pain, the hair pulling and hitting with plumbing pipes, are directed to the end of 'breaking' the child, of crushing their will, of abusing them into accepting their parents' absolute authority. Two quotes:
"use whatever force is necessary to bring him to bay. If you have to sit on him to spank him then do not hesitate. And hold him there until he is surrendered. Prove that you are bigger, tougher, more patiently enduring and are unmoved by his wailing. Defeat him totally. Accept no conditions for surrender. No compromise. You are to rule over him as a benevolent sovereign. Your word is final."
"Any spanking, to effectively reinforce instruction, must cause pain. . . For the under one year old, a little, ten- to twelve-inch long, willowy branch (striped of any knots that might break the skin) about one-eighth inch diameter is sufficient. . . . A one-foot ruler, or its equivalent in a paddle, is a sufficient alternative. For the larger child, a belt or larger tree branch is effective."
A plain incitement to evil: it's not surprising that this has been linked to child deaths.
Reasonable people can hold differing views about smacking children, that is fine. But what I find disturbing here - and why I am astonished that Amazon sell it - is that the whole tone and approach of the book is to physically and mentally abuse children into submission. The pain, the hair pulling and hitting with plumbing pipes, are directed to the end of 'breaking' the child, of crushing their will, of abusing them into accepting their parents' absolute authority. Two quotes:
"use whatever force is necessary to bring him to bay. If you have to sit on him to spank him then do not hesitate. And hold him there until he is surrendered. Prove that you are bigger, tougher, more patiently enduring and are unmoved by his wailing. Defeat him totally. Accept no conditions for surrender. No compromise. You are to rule over him as a benevolent sovereign. Your word is final."
"Any spanking, to effectively reinforce instruction, must cause pain. . . For the under one year old, a little, ten- to twelve-inch long, willowy branch (striped of any knots that might break the skin) about one-eighth inch diameter is sufficient. . . . A one-foot ruler, or its equivalent in a paddle, is a sufficient alternative. For the larger child, a belt or larger tree branch is effective."
A plain incitement to evil: it's not surprising that this has been linked to child deaths.
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I love it!
I am struggling understanding the negative reviews.. I really am!
The book is full of wisdom, practical advises and open my eyes for many things! Read more
The book is full of wisdom, practical advises and open my eyes for many things! Read more
Published 26 days ago by vanya
E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T BOOK !!
READ this book, ajusted it to my life and circumstances but learned some really good lessons from it. Applied it in some degree to my children. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Gabriel Kolbe
Excellent common sense.
This book is an excellent, common sense understanding of child raising.....
Producing happy, balanced children..... Read more
Producing happy, balanced children..... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Beresford John S. Job
Child Abuse instruction manual??? You sick people!
I am a father and a criminal justice graduate. I would never treat my son in anyway described in this book. This book is disgusting and should not be allowed to be sold. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Christopher L. Norvell
Appalling
This book advocates child abuse and should be removed from the site in line with Amazon's stated policy that it will not carry material with an offensive content. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Harriet
Disgusting, appalling, shocking and dangerous
"If your 10-month-old is pitching a fit because he wants to be picked up, then you must reinforce your command with a few stinging swats. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Killarney
Shocking in this day and age
It's really shocking that in this day and age there are people who think it acceptable for parents to hit children, even babies, in this way. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Modern parent
Obscene and Dangerous
I implore Amazon to remove this book from sale. It uses religious dogma to advocate violent disciplining of children as young as 6 months of age. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Norman Ritchie-Wood
ABUSE OF CHILDREN!!
This book describes abuse of children using beating biting starving neglecting children to train them and has been linked with the deaths of several children in the USA. Read more
Published 6 months ago by lilly biker
Dangerously misguided!
This dangerous drivel, which has been cited as an apparently contributing factor in the recent deaths of three very young children, is about what one would expect from "religious"... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Michael Wells Glueck
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