No Longer Quivering
by Michael Pearl of No Greater Joy – Cheerful, Authoritative, Consistent
Editor’s note: Michael Pearl can claim all he wants that spankings and beatings must be carried out with a cheerfulness, but we know from his many denigrating posts speaking down to others and blaming children that it is anger and agression driving his discipline of children.
What I just said is absolutely true, about children being broken to authority, and I must say it, though I know there will be religious tyrants who will skip the first quality—cheerful joy—and will say, “Yeah, that’s it, BREAK THEM. Teach those little devilish nymphs to fear the rod. They must learn who is boss.” If that is your attitude you should give your children away and join Al Qaeda. Then you could hide in the mountains of Afghanistan where you would be in better company, and maybe the military would call upon you with a drone. Anger and aggression have no place in child training. Go back and view The Joy of Training.
A leader has lost control when he must resort to intimidation to command respect, and then the respect is based on fear and hate—not what we want to see in our children. You can establish your authority by means of the third quality—consistency.
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