Home Built Discipline/Complete With Study Guide

by Raymond S. Moore, Dorothy N. Moore

In Home Built Discipline, the Moores give ten "building blocks" for effective discipline that will not only benefit your child from the day of birth into adulthood but make you a happier, more productive parent. This book will help you develop the gifts and skills of love, firmness, and consistency needed to give your child a balanced, stable foundation from which to grow.Book SpecsPaper Back
Moore Foundation, The
1990
257

Table of ContentsPreface
Discipline Through Understanding
Ten Building Blocks of Commonsense Discipline
The Ministry of Tenderness
The Stripes of Love
Study Guide
Notes
Index

Genres: Parenting

257 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Dr. Raymond S. Moore, author of Better Late than Early, the book that launched the modern homeschooling movement in the United States, passed away on July 13, 2007, at the age of 91.
Moore’s book grew out of an article first published in Harper’s in 1972, at the time when California was considering a law to make school compulsory for children as young as 2 years, 9 months. The article was republished by Reader’s Digest where it was so popular, the editors requested a book. With his wife Dorothy (deceased) he wrote many books on education and other subjects.
His educational career began as a teacher, principal and superintendent of California public schools. During World War II he served on General MacArthur’s staff. After completing his PhD in Education at the University of Southern California, he held the positions of academic dean and president of numerous Seventh-day Colleges in the United States, Japan, and the Philippines. The United States Office of Education then invited him to be a higher education program officer.
But it was the research that he compiled about the effects of schooling on young children that steered his career away from higher education and into homeschooling. He and his wife Dorothy spent years working with legislatures and courts to establish legal precedents for parents desiring to homeschool their children. Dr. Moore was the world’s foremost expert witness in homeschooling appearing in courts as far away as South Africa, West Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as Canada and the United States. The Moores were strong believers in the educational principles of head, heart, and hand laid out by Seventh-day Adventist Pioneer Ellen G. White. This philosophy of balancing service, work, and study became known as the Moore Formula in homeschooling circles.

from: http://www.moorefoundation.com/

Reviews

[Allison · Rating 2 out of 5]

So let me sum this book up in four words: schedule, routine, warm water and no snacks.
Any discipline issue you have can be solved by applying the above four things. The warm water is for drinking. (blech!) So, the Moores and I part ways pretty much on all four things but at least now I know what is to blame when my kids act up. And even though I didn't necessarily agree with anything they had to say, I did enjoy reading the book.

[Frances Eaves · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this book hard to stay engaged with. An outdated resource (written in the 70’s), there’s simply way better resources today. The first half read like a Human Growth and Development book. 😴