For well over a year we’ve been running a second Answering ‘Preparing To Be A Help Meet’ on Sundays, filled with questions by young ladies trying to get ready for marriage. Since we’ve run through many of the questions on their site it’s time to shift Sundays to something else, like perhaps examining the cornucopia of probably fake emails and questions that Michael and Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy post on their website and the possibly poisonous answers they give.

Question and answer here:

The question

I do have a question. How do I deal with an angry child? When he doesn’t get his way, when I fix a breakfast he’s not fond of, he acts angry and blames me. He often tells me that spankings only makes him angrier. What am I missing? CH

Michael Pearl’s answer:

There is only one reason that he would express anger when he did not get his way; because such displays have, at least occasionally, caused him to get his way. He is manipulating you. The fact that he continues to do it tells me that it occasionally works. You give in. You have successfully trained him to respond as he does.
You feel guilty and inadequate, and he knows it. He knows you are trying to work the anger out of him, so he assures you that your responses only make matters worse. You believe him, so he wins again. Smart kid……

…..I could break his anger in two days. He would be too scared to get angry.

There is a lot edited out of Michael’s copious response. He cites prison and the types of angry selfish men in there for many paragraphs before moving on to tell her to cut off this behavior, stop tolerating the child’s disrespect and only spank when she is not angry.

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