Comments on: To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl http://www.brittmooney.com/2008/10/to-train-up-a-child-by-michael-and-debi-pearl/ Just another WordPress site Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Miles http://www.brittmooney.com/2008/10/to-train-up-a-child-by-michael-and-debi-pearl/#comment-365 Matt Miles Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:02:56 +0000 http://www.brittmooney.com/?p=454#comment-365 This sounds good. Letting kids run around without direction gives them too little credit. I'm glad people are out there who take these issues seriously. This sounds good. Letting kids run around without direction gives them too little credit. I’m glad people are out there who take these issues seriously.

]]> By: d10 http://www.brittmooney.com/2008/10/to-train-up-a-child-by-michael-and-debi-pearl/#comment-364 d10 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:35:11 +0000 http://www.brittmooney.com/?p=454#comment-364 Yeah, to me the thing most interesting about this book was their treatment of the parent's emotions in training. I.e., you don't take it personally when your horse doesn't obey you... And how when, as parents, we become emotional and raise voices, that very act trains the child that they don't have to obey you until you get frustrated or angry with them. How every bit of instruction should be delivered calmly and unaffected, or else they will never obey your calm instructions, but only when you begin to raise your voice. There are so many other take-aways from this one which I won't type out, but I agree it was a great read, one that we hope to adopt many principles from... Yeah, to me the thing most interesting about this book was their treatment of the parent’s emotions in training. I.e., you don’t take it personally when your horse doesn’t obey you… And how when, as parents, we become emotional and raise voices, that very act trains the child that they don’t have to obey you until you get frustrated or angry with them. How every bit of instruction should be delivered calmly and unaffected, or else they will never obey your calm instructions, but only when you begin to raise your voice.

There are so many other take-aways from this one which I won’t type out, but I agree it was a great read, one that we hope to adopt many principles from…

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