Michael Pearl, Extreme Child Discipline - To Train Up Your Child
A child is beaten with a plumbing supply line for seven straight hours, with periodic breaks only for family prayer. In another family, a girl is unresponsive to the CPR efforts of the officer on the scene – she lied stripped naked, malnourished, and hypothermic. Perhaps you remember these stories, and their connection to one another. Below I have all four parts of an Anderson Cooper interview with Michael Pearl , author of To Train Up Your Child and head of No Greater Joy Ministries – the teachings apparently upheld by this family and others whose actions have killed their children. I first heard of this book a couple of years ago while in the student lounge at seminary – and no, while seminary students are typically spankers, it did not come up in a laudable conversation. These particular stories were not in the conversation, but I was told by one concerned student about this book and the odd (at times, extreme) advice given by Pearl and the poor theologica...