This is a review posted at many different websites including at Amazon for this book on spanking in the Christian home. Since so many people are in complete denial about what Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar believe in and do when the cameras are not rolling we need to educate them.
It frightens me to think that either Jill or Jessa might be using these toxic ideas to raise their children. Little Israel is getting just about the age when blanket training starts.
After 19 years I have found the courage to write you this letter declaring how your choice to teach and write about spanking has affected me. My purpose in writing you this open letter is to share with you and others that the spanking approach you recommend is harmful. My parents both know my view on this issue. I have talked to them, as well, about how their decision to implement your spanking recommendations affected me.
I have a mission. My mission is to warn new parents who are innocently trying to raise happy, healthy children. Should just one parent spare their child the kind of pain that I endured at the hands of my parents implementing your spanking recommendations, my pain will have more meaning than it does now. In your book, you describe a process by which a parent performs a spanking on their child.
The seventh step is to continue spanking until the child yields a broken cry, which indicates a broken will. The eighth step is reconciliation. You recommend that parents comfort the child until sufficient time has passed, and then ask the child to stop crying. But my description does not come close to what it feels like to receive a Roy Lessin spanking. My first spanking was when I was six months old. My mother spanked me for crying after she put me to bed. She had to spank me repeatedly to teach me to not cry when she put me down.
