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That is a very good question, Daryl. I cannot see that there can be a cogent argument in defence of staying there.

But it’s OK if God tells you to beat your children, right?

If anyone wants to move off there, I’ll even help.

I have been considering deleting all bloggers from homeschoolblogger from my blogroll – or at least making them private – you know, the ones you want to keep an eye on, like Spunky. I really don’t even feel good giving them hits. You have them on your list too – so are we part of the problem, or part of the solution? I’ll go first.

Doc, Spunky has a blogspot blog as well and mirrors content. 🙂

Yeah, and I just deleted both of them. And anything that remotely links to TOS.

Good idea, Doc. Scott is the only homeschoolblogger in my list (I don’t count Spunky as I link to her blogspot site).

I don’t have any HSB bloggers on my blogroll. And I think I’ll publicize that fact at my site right now.

Every blogger and message board owner should boycott all listings of homeschoolblogger sites. As soon as my stupid blogspot account is back up (we will be down for maint for 40 min) I am posting exactly that, and I would like to see every other person who reads this to do the same.

Actually, I was linking to Scott – but I’m not anymore. Nothing personal Scott.

WordPress.com offers free blogs – without the overhead of supporting No Greater Joy Ministries.

In the interest of fairness, a short length of thin, plastic tubing is actually what the Pearls recommend using–not a plumbing supply line.

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The above tubing (comment 11) is also what I’ve understood the Pearls to recommend. THAT is something that could be “kept in a purse” or “worn around your neck”, not the picture you are using.

It seems obvious that the comment you are so highly offended by was intended to be sarcastic.

I’ve read a plumbing line too. Hitting a baby with anything is totally disgusting and shows no respect for the child’s liberty.

Slander? Hardly.

The rod we speak of is a plumbing supply line that can be bought at any hardware store or large department store. It is a slim, flexible, plastic tubing that supplies water to sinks, and toilets. Ask for “¼ inch supply line.” They cost less than one dollar. I always give myself one swat before I swat the child to remind myself how much force to exert. It stings the skin without bruising or damaging tissue. It’s a real attention-getter. Michael demonstrates its use in our new Seminar videos.

I’ve installed more than a few faucets and toilets. This is the supply line. The picture is straight from Home Depot’s website after I searched for “supply line.” Perhaps the torture devices the Pearls recommend don’t have the fittings permanently attached, but is that really relevant?

I’m wondering if the reason I can’t get into Doc’s blog this morning is related to this.

Blogspot frequently has server problems – I doubt there is a connection. 403 forbidden errors are server permission issues – not something Doc could do on her own at Blogspot.

My blog is simply one of hundreds that is down. I have to make up for it by leaving a million comments with the same message – boycott any site that supports The Pearls. Blogs, message boards, used curriculum sites, websites. All of them.

I am sick to my stomach that someone, anyone, would post that there is some kind of gentling difference with one kind of plumbing aparatus or another in regards to beating kids. My kids have never been hit, with a hand or otherwise. Idiots.

There are other Christian approaches to child-rearing. The great Christian educators Maria Montessori, St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Seton, and Father Flanagan all forbade corporal punishment, understanding that it was unncecessary and counterproductive.

See nospan...ak.htm for a conservative, traditional Christian critique of corporal punishment.

If you are a Christian parent who spanks, or know someone who is, please make yourself aware of the alternatives, and of the venerable history of gentleness in child-rearing.

Okay, apparently I am dense or something (go ahead and isult away.. I can take it). This is the first time I am hearning about this. What exactly does it have to do with homeschoolblogger? I have a blog there and know a few others who do as well, but we don’t link to the Pearls’s books or anything. Do they have a blog there or something? I have read the Pearl’s books, along wtih many other parenting books. I agree with some of what they said and disagree with some… just as I do with most of the parenting (political, financial, philosophical) books I read. As a rational adult, I can take or leave anything I read from anywhere and decide whether it is useful, criminal or otherwise. I am not so shallow or lacking in self-esteem to take everything that another human being says as gospel. I don’t exactly see what banning homeschoolblogger sites is going to do. I left my link above, but it will probably be ignored or banned or something. That is your right. However, the presence of my blog on homeschoolblogger is no more a condoning of child abuse than my drinking “milk form a Christian cow” shows my faith or listening to NPR (or reading this blog) reveals my political beliefs.

Maybe I am just missing something.

[Edited by Daryl Cobranchi to remove the link to homeschoolblogger.com]

Dear p31,

Perhaps you are unaware that the homeschoolblogger.com site is owned and operated by Gena Suarez, publisher of TOS. And perhaps you are also unaware that said Mrs. Suarez has been a vocal supporter of the Pearls. And perhaps you are unaware of the nasty, evil, vile quote in the paper by the same Mrs. Suarez.

The fact of the matter is, Gena Suarez is making a profit (one way or another) on the homeschoolblogger.com site. I refuse to put another penny in her pocket until she acknowledges that her quote was horrible and she apologizes to the home education community and especially to the siblings of the little boy who was murdered.

I must have missed it all. What was this quote and where can I find it?

Uhh, it’s blockquoted above. And here’s the backstory.