TTUAC: Quality Time Is Idle Chatter
The entire point of quality time is that it is not unreal, pretentious, or insincere. Time spent connecting one-on-one with your child is by definition not "idle chatter." Look---really look---at what...
View ArticleTTUAC: Manipulate Your Children’s Affections
Today we continue the letter Michael Pearl wrote to his sons, published in the end of his child abuse manual in 1996. The first part dealt with choosing a wife, and the second part described "quality...
View ArticleTTUAC: Boys Don’t Need Book Learning
Michael, however, appears to associate education with feelings of inadequacy. As problematic as that is for this section---where he's openly endorsing not educating boys---it's fascinating from a...
View ArticleTTUAC: Life without Struggle Has No Achievement
Michael wants to have his cake and eat it too. Michael wants children who are completely obedient to his every whim and jump when he says jump---but he also wants to play at being the happy, laughing,...
View ArticleTo Train Up A Child: Toys? What Toys?
"I absolutely agree that many children today end up with far more toys than they need or can effectively use---but that isn't a reason to march directly to the other extreme. "Forget about buying them...
View ArticleTTUAC: Um Debi? Sycophants Don’t Help People Grow
Note that Debi acknowledges that a woman's husband will still have growth to do. "As he grows," she writes, "you're children will grown and your cup will be so full it will overflow into the lives of...
View ArticleTTUAC: Normal Is Not Enough
At some point along the line, however, the Christian homeschool movement as a movement began to be about more than raising godly children. It came to be about raising culture changers. Christian...
View ArticleTTUAC: One Horrific Paragraph
What is this "power-discipline," and why do I find the term so horrific? If anyone made it this far without throwing this book across the room, this bit ought to stop them short (unfortunately, if they...
View ArticleTTUAC: In Which Michael Deals in Dysfunctional Relationships
Michael talks about marriage as through there are only two options---constant fighting over who gets to be on top---who "wins"---or wifely submission that leads to a calm, peaceful household as the...
View ArticleTo Train Up A Child: Soul Invasion
"You invade the soul of a developing human being." I'm trying to figure out how to put into words what feels so off about this. Maybe it's the word "invade," which would seem to suggest forced entry....
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