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101: A Police Officer Talks About Spanking
By Police
Detective Robert R. Surgenor
"For years, I have compiled statistics that indicate when parents
eliminate corporal punishment from their discipline plan, the child grows
up with an attitude of "no fear." Even when the parent is
diligent in other areas of discipline, such as taking away privileges and
grounding, when that one element of discipline, spanking, is taken away,
the parent usually experiences defiance problems throughout the teen
years." Several years after Robert Surgenor wrote this letter
he published a book on the topic of the effect of parents not
spanking their children. See below,
114: No Fear Book Review
and 115: About Robert Surgenor
for additional information.
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Children 102: What Ever Happened to the
Village?
By Mark
Benedict
In America society used to
assist parents in raising well disciplined children. Not any more.
Fact is, western society is now hard at work doing all it can to make sure
parents fail! Don't trust the village to
teach your children about right and wrong unless you will be satisfied to
have your children act like the villagers! For success, you need a
winning strategy in the most important ministry God has given to you -
bringing your "next generation" to a genuine faith in Christ!
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Children
103:
Successful Parenting Or Parental Failure?
By Mark Benedict
What should we
expect as parents? How can we know if we've succeeded in training our children? What makes
an unsuccessful parent and how can we avoid failing at one of our most challenging and
important tasks?
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104:
Ann Landers Takes a Beating Over Spanking!
By Mark Benedict
Ann Landers advises
against spanking but what does god's Word teach? Look at what Ann advised in one of
her columns and then read a
differing point of view by Mark Benedict concerning Ann's advice to one mother.
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105: Best Books For Parents
Reviewed by Mark Benedict
"What the Bible says about ...Child Training.” by Richard Fugate. This is simply
one of the best books on the how and why of Biblical parenting. Young parents, please read it,
you'll be glad you did!
"No Fear"
by Ohio
police detective Robert Surgenor. This is a scholarly review of the
statistics of youth crime which clearly shows the outrageous lies being
propagated by the influential anti-spanking movement in their effort to
make it impossible for parents to raise their children using Biblical
methods of discipline. This book also dispels many myths and
misrepresentations about state and federal laws on spanking and child
rearing.
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Children
106: Educational Hoo-Hah?
By Dr. John Rosemond
Parents are responsible
for their children's education and discipline. Some just don't get it! If you are
expecting your children's school to teach them right and wrong you're in for a wild ride.
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Children
107: Disciplining Your Child Early
By Mark Benedict
In our experience the
battle for a child's heart is won or lost early, when the child is quite young. This is a
critical time when parents help form their children's view of God and their understanding
of His justice and truth.
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Children
108: Parenting For Dummies - Why Parents are Losing Control of Children
By Mark Benedict
For years parenting has been dumbed-down as parents accepted the false assumptions and ideas offered by the promoters of psychology and other forms of worldly wisdom.
Parents, get smart! Learn to discern
the truth by returning to God's Word for practical guidance and instruction on
successful parenting. Do this and you won't be a "dummy"
when it comes to raising your children according to the directions God has
given in the Bible. |
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109: Raising Polite, Obedient, and Cheerful Children.
By Jamie Pritchett
Read Jamie's excellent and encouraging article on how to succeed at
parenting by setting the right goals.
"Is it possible? Is there a
way to raise children to be polite, obedient and cheerful, or are such children only born
to very lucky parents? Those were my questions when my husband and I were first married
and were contemplating having children. I had always wanted children and looked forward to
the day when I would be a "mom," but I worried about what kind of children mine
would be. For I had noticed that I became irritated when I was confronted with whiny and
ill-behaved children." Author
Jaimie Pritchett |
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110: Disciplining Children
By Dennis L. Finnan
Explains How and Why to
Spank, from The World, the Word & You! Broadcast, Commentary by Dennis L.
Finnan. "Perhaps there is no greater and more important
subject to consider than our world's future. For any such thoughts must of necessity take
us to that which will be the future - that is today's children. Yes, children are my
subject today, and how to ensure them and our world a bright and wonderful future."
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111: Bible Goals in Raising Children
By Warren Doud
From Grace Notes Home Page. "This
paper is not a how-to article on training children, but it gives you some general ideas
about the goals parents can set in child training. You will probably have your child in
the home for about 18 years, and during that time it is your responsibility to see that
the child is educated, trained, and brought to enough spiritual maturity to make the step
into Christian adulthood. You can set up a life "curriculum" for your child, for
every year of his life, which will enable him to reach his potential in God's plan for his
life."
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Children
112: Why the Rod is Righteous
By Robert Deffinbaugh
The Way of the Wise: Robert
Deffinbaugh, Community Bible Chapel, Richardson, Texas. Studies in the Book of Proverbs.
"Most
of our reasons for resisting the rod do not go back to our parents. I believe one of the
principle reasons why we fail to discipline our children is because we are sluggards.
Let’s face it, children never disobey us when it is convenient to discipline them.
Sometimes it is in the middle of a Dallas Cowboy’s football game. Who wants to get up
and spank a child when it is third down with one yard to go on the opponent’s two
yard line? Then again, who is anxious to spank their child in the aisle of a supermarket,
when it seems that every eye is on us? If I were to be totally honest I would have to
admit that the major reason why I don’t spank as much as I should is because I am too
lazy to put forth to the effort to do something I don’t really enjoy."
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113: God's Promises on Training Children
By David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist News Service
Scripture has clear promises to parents on what they can expect God to do
if they are faithful in training their children. Parents need to teach
their children and train them according to Scripture if they are to rely
on God to do his part.
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Children
114: Review of No Fear: A Policeman's Perspective
No Fear demolishes some of the
most cherished myths of the anti-spanking crowd. Children who are
spanked in the context of loving discipline don't become violent!
Yet some of the most violent youth offenders have never experienced a
spanking! |
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115: About the Author of No Fear: A Policeman's Perspective
Ropert Surgenor has extensive
experience working with juvenile offenders and their families. He
has been in a position to learn why many families produce juvenile
terrors. The answer may surprise you! |
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116: Bum Rap About Spanking
By Okey Chigbo, featured from www.nextcity.com
The author writes a scholarly analysis which shows a critical logical flaw
used in the arguments of spanking opponents who believe that spanking
children leads to violence. Mr. Chigbo reasons from a common sense
viewpoint to
clear away the smokescreens and get to the real issues: Children who are not
spanked when needed can grow up to be violent, antisocial, and just plain
obnoxious.
Parents are being unnecessarily scared away from using a
form of discipline that has been used for many generations by the
purveyors of junk science! It doesn't take a scholar to figure out
that since spanking has declined in usage, discipline and social problems
with our young people have dramatically increased. |
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117: Please Don't Spank?
Article by Ms. Lonnit Rysher. Critical Analysis by Mark Benedict
Mark Benedict gives his
comments on Ms. Rysher's anti-spanking article. Should children be spanked? Do children learn violence from
being spanked or do they learn to become uncontrolled and violent by being
ineffectively disciplined by their parents? Draw your own
conclusions based on the opposing arguments presented here.
What does the Bible teach?
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118: The Wicked World of Harry Potter
Written by Dr. Glen Spencer, Mount Vernon Baptist Church, E-Tunkhannock
Pennsylvania
Dr Spencer,
citing many Scripture passages exposes occult roots of the Harry Potter
series. He clearly shows the reader why Harry Potter books should
not be on any child's bookshelf. I encourage parents who love their
children to not be taken in by hype and popular culture but to prove all
things and hold fast that which is good! There are many wholesome
alternatives to the Harry Potter books and as discerning Christians we
should not be fooled into dropping our guard and letting into our homes
that which God has strongly warned us to avoid. This is must reading
for any parent! |
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119: What Kids Should Expect From a Working Mother
By Dr. John Rosemond
A penetrating
look at how many working mothers are suffering from needless guilt because they have
allowed their children to become the center of their lives, even at the
cost of leaving their marriage relationship hollow. Does not recommend
that mothers should work but provides a more balanced view towards a mothers
responsibilities when work is simply unavoidable, such as for single
mothers. |
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120: The Scars of Sin
By
Pastor Ray Steadman
Parents who assume that it is normal for their children to go through a
time of rebellion and disobedience are handicapping their future service
to the Lord with the resulting scars and baggage of sin. There is an
alternative, but it requires parents to seek spiritual victory in their
children's lives at all costs. Don't settle for less |
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121: Parenting Is Not Easy
By
Pastor Dan Erickson
Pastor Erickson takes a humorous but insightful look at the challenges of
parenting while reminding parents of their essential responsibilities. In
the process he shows that many parental problems are actually caused by
unresolved problems with the parents. It is not reasonable for
Christian parents to be disobedient and disrespectful in their attitudes
towards their own parents and yet expect God to give them success with their
own children. |
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122: Obey God or Man
By
Charles Gleason
As the state grows more hostile towards Biblical parenting many parents
are afraid to properly discipline their children for fear of falling afoul
of State Child Protective Services. Charles Gleason points out that
Christians are to fear God and obey Him, rather than cower before the agents
of the State. |
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123: Excerpts from the book, "What the Bible Says ... About Child
Training"
By Richard Fugate
This is the classic book on raising children for God. These detailed
excerpts are convincing proof as to why all new parents will want to have
this book in their reference library. In the face of growing hostility by
our society towards Biblical parenting, Christians must understand why and
how to effectively discipline their children. |
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124: 19 Helpful Thoughts on Raising Children
By Pastor Terry Coomer
Pastor Coomer provides a short checklist for parents to help them start
their children out on the right path. The only way you can implement these
19 practices is to live a faithful and true Christian life by relying on
God's grace moment by moment! |
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125: The Folly of Sweden. Outlaw Spanking and Make Parents Into
Criminals!
Mrs. Siv Westerberg
Sweden has often been cited as a country which has
spear-headed the effort to completely eliminate spanking. There are
many Swedes who believe this has not had a positive effect on Swedish
Society. Mrs. Siv Westerberg's lecture to The Family Education Trust
taken from
www.nkmr.org/siv_westerbergs_london_lecture.htm provides an interesting
account of the current situation in Sweden that should give spanking critics
something to consider.
Swedish parents fear having their children taken from them
and put into forcible care and foster homes for the "crime" of using
discipline methods not improved by the social visionaries who crafted
Sweden's laws. "Sweden has, during the last
decades, developed into a kind of socio-medical totalitarian state...About
five thousand Swedish children are at present in forcible care in
foster-homes and institutions. Add to that about ten thousand children who
are taken "voluntarily" into care. That is to say, their parents are told
that unless they sign papers which say they gave up their children
voluntarily, they will never see them again"
The other interesting fact is that violent
assaults by youths in Sweden have sky-rocketed since Sweden outlawed
spanking! |
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126: Parenting 1.01 Bible Based Basics For New Parents
By Gordon Rampy
Parenting
1.01
consists of seven concise articles developed from a Christian
perspective using sound, Biblical principles for building strong, love-bonded
families.
The articles emphasize parental example, spousal harmony and firm, consistent,
loving discipline as keys to success. The importance of applying these
principles during the early, critical period of child rearing is stressed.
The author, Gordon A.
Rampy, is an experienced, successful parent -- old-fashioned and politically
incorrect -- who, with the help of God and a godly wife, raised four
happily-married sons. He believes the Biblical charge, "The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom" provides the basis for restoring the family to
its position as the foundation of our society.
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127: Book Review, Buddy Scott's Book "Relief For Hurting Parents"
By Mark Benedict
I whole-heartedly recommend Buddy Scott’s book, “Relief for Hurting
Parents” as one of the best books I have ever read on dealing with
problem teenage children. Buddy Scott offers an outstanding collection of Biblically sound and practical approaches to dealing with
disobedient teenagers. Buddy Scott also provides materials and
support for parenting support groups.
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