The author has a lot of great points in this book against pushoever parenting. I didn't agree with everything she said, but I especially enjoyed how she focused on a religious aspect of parenting and what we are really trying to accomplish as parents. While reading a different parenting book about teaching children to problem solve, I had thought that they also needed to teach the example child right from wrong, because he was coming up with lots of different solutions to his problem as part of the problem solving method, but all the solutions were bad solutions. I think discipline (teaching children) goes hand in hand with why we want them to behave in a certain way. When I interviewed to become a teacher, the principal asked me why we discipline children, and my answer, so they can learn, was the reason I got the job. Apparently none of the other teachers interviewed knew why we need discipline in the classroom. I have to disagree with the author about why children do bad things sometimes, she thought origional sin, whereas I'd call it battling the natural man and temptation. She was also very negative about the parenting culture and tried to refute some of the popular sayings of the parenting culture. Here she also lost me a little because I do agree with a lot of parenting culture and I felt that she was trying to make the same point, but she used different words to say what I felt was the same thing. It is interesting how using different words can change the way a person understands something.

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The author has a lot of great points in this book against pushoever parenting. I didn't agree with everything she said, but I especially enjoyed how she focused on a religious aspect of parenting and what we are really trying to accomplish as parents. While reading a different parenting book about teaching children to problem solve, I had thought that they also needed to teach the example child right from wrong, because he was coming up with lots of different solutions to his problem as part of the problem solving method, but all the solutions were bad solutions. I think discipline (teaching children) goes hand in hand with why we want them to behave in a certain way. When I interviewed to become a teacher, the principal asked me why we discipline children, and my answer, so they can learn, was the reason I got the job. Apparently none of the other teachers interviewed knew why we need discipline in the classroom. I have to disagree with the author about why children do bad things sometimes, she thought origional sin, whereas I'd call it battling the natural man and temptation. She was also very negative about the parenting culture and tried to refute some of the popular sayings of the parenting culture. Here she also lost me a little because I do agree with a lot of parenting culture and I felt that she was trying to make the same point, but she used different words to say what I felt was the same thing. It is interesting how using different words can change the way a person understands something.

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