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Thanks for your review of this book. I think people who were raised in kind families often overlook the more extreme concepts he puts forth in his book because it contradicts all of the "love and kindness" he explains in other parts of the book. I was raised in a household where "Shepherding a Child's Heart" tapes were constantly played throughout my house, and I was violently abused for 20 years in the name of this book. At one point, Tripp teaches that if a child has a "rebellious" attitude, a parent should shadow them looking for any minor infraction so they can discipline out the bad attitude. This concept alone left me in constant physical and mental horror. When you teach a parent that it is THEIR duty to save their child from hell, and the mode of saving them is the use of the rod, it will be rare for a child NOT to be abused. As humans, most parents will forget the good points of the book but they are left with a physical object, a rod in their hands, and imbued by the book with a duty to "save" their children. In the end, what else could happen but abuse?
Oct 14, 2011, 10:14:29 AM
Posted to Shepherding a Child's Heart: Wise advice and one key error
