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Taming the Lecture Bug
Your children have just been caught in a lie, or are refusing to do their household chores. What is your first instinct to do as the parent? Sit your child down for an intense lecture on the rights and wrongs of his/her behavior. However, what your lecture is not doing is teaching your child to think and be accountable for his/her actions. Parents and authors Joey and Carla Link saw how their own lectures didn't produce the desired obedience from their three children, so they talked more and lectured less; imploring consistent parenting that motivated their children to be more responsible and aware of actions. Their advice and real-life experiences are included in their educational guide, Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think. The book offers parents helpful, biblical parenting solutions that encourage children's thinking before acting and parents' patience with children instead of resorting to lecturing.
162 pages, Paperback
Published May 29, 2015
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March 17, 2018
There were parts of their method that I directly disagreed with and would never implement. There was one example in particular in the book, where a child gets in trouble for lying at school and their advice to the parents is to give her the silent treatment and exclude her from family activities (including family dinner), until she is ready to repent, which lasted for two days. In relating this story to my husband, my older girls (15 and 13) asked me why you would treat someone you love like that. I know for our children, they would see that type of behavior as us giving up on and abandoning them. Perhaps there are other families where this type of tough love would work, but ours is not one of them.
There were other examples they used to show how parents turned to lecturing because their children were manipulators, liars and deceivers; however, in the majority of the examples they gave I found that it was behavior the children had learned was acceptable due to bad parenting practices to begin with. I felt their tone was more that it was the child's fault the parent was lecturing and not the parents. In fact, you get more than half way through the book before they address that it may be a parenting problem.
They do offer suggestions for how to replace your lecturing with a better approach, but most of what they suggested I felt was common sense. This isn't a parenting book I would recommend.
There were other examples they used to show how parents turned to lecturing because their children were manipulators, liars and deceivers; however, in the majority of the examples they gave I found that it was behavior the children had learned was acceptable due to bad parenting practices to begin with. I felt their tone was more that it was the child's fault the parent was lecturing and not the parents. In fact, you get more than half way through the book before they address that it may be a parenting problem.
They do offer suggestions for how to replace your lecturing with a better approach, but most of what they suggested I felt was common sense. This isn't a parenting book I would recommend.
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