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Mark and Sallie Benedict

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How to get around the Christian Parents Web Site

There is a certain method to our madness! The site is organized with an introduction and six main subject headings.  Each subject area has a distinct color scheme that you'll find on all the pages in that section, as in this introduction, which uses marine blue.  

Underneath each section's tabs in the shaded links bar you'll find 4-5 links to individual articles.  These articles have been given top billing for that section and we recommend you read them first.

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We selected them as starting points, either because they were most relevant to the topic, or because they provide foundational information on the topics discussed in other articles.  We've tried to arrange these articles logically so they're best read from left to right in order.

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Early Discipline Parental Success or Failure Dumbed-Down Parenting? Articles

Except for the Introduction, on the right of each shaded link zone, each section has an "Articles" link with a table of contents listing of all the articles in that section.  We've written a short abstract for each article to explain the subject of the article.  Below is an abbreviated listing from the "Children" section listing:

Children 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.

Children 102: What Ever Happened to the Village?  
By Mark Benedict
In America society used to provide some assistance to parents in raising well disciplined children. Not any more. Fact is, that society is working against most parents these days! Don't trust the village to teach your children about right and wrong.  You need to adjust your strategy for success in the most important ministry God has given to you - Winning the next generation for Christ

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?

We hope you'll browse around and look at each section to see what interests you.  We don't claim to have everything you'll ever need to know on the site.  But we've made a special effort to make sure that what we have is doctrinally sound and trustworthy.  

We do include some articles from time to time from authors that we do not fully agree with in respect to doctrinal content or their beliefs.  We normally include a comment in the introduction or article summary to call attention to this.  While it is important to strive for doctrinal correctness, we need to acknowledge every Christian is prone to make errors in thought, judgment, and discourse.  It is impractical to expect perfection from humans.  Our responsibility is to "prove all things and hold fast that which is good." (1st Thessalonians, 5:21) 

  

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