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To Train Up a Child

By: Michael Pearl, Debi Pearl
Narrated by: Stephen Pearl
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From successful parents, learn how to train up your children rather than discipline them. With humor and real-life examples, this book shows you how to train your children before the need to discipline arises. Be done with corrective discipline; make them allies rather than adversaries. The stress will be gone, and your obedient children will praise you and bring joy and peace into your home. Thousands have testified to the amazing results of these profoundly simple techniques.

This book is not about discipline nor problematic children. The emphasis is on the training of a child before the need to discipline arises. It is apparent that though they expect obedience, most parents never attempt to train their child to obey. They wait until his behavior becomes unbearable and then explode.

With proper training, discipline can be reduced to five percent of what many now practice. As you come to understand the difference between training and discipline, you will have a renewed vision for your family - no more raised voices, no contention, no bad attitudes, fewer spankings, a cheerful atmosphere in the home, and total obedience from your children.

©1994 Michael & Debi Pearl (P)2021 No Greater Joy Ministries, Inc. Infants & Toddlers Parenting & Families Relationships Witty
Biblical Parenting Advice • Detailed Training Methods • Effective Discipline Techniques • Joyful Family Outcomes
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Excellence! If you love your child, apply what they have. Your child will thank you.

Read over and over

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I started implementing and I have already seen improvement with my almost 2 year old, who before would not listen and do the opposite of what you wanted. This book came at God's perfect timing.

Hopefully and ready to train

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Great book super informative, very detailed which is great, and biblical based, with wisdom & love, Respect & God at the center.

Great book and so informative, very detailed

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Give it a chance before you discard it due to negative reviews, which highly inflate and take out of context the authors words and intentions. There is so much wisdom here written from a place of love and goodness that could be life-changing, and in fact, have been life-changing, for many families including my own. This is a guide to true family harmony and child training that will serve you and your children positively for your whole lives!

Wonderful and life changing!

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I loved this book so much. I’ve been listening to audibles since 2017 and read lots of child rearing but none like this one.

Must read for child rearing

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We are having our first child soon, and I found this book to be so good that I’m hoping to read it 2 more times before he comes.

Essential for all parents!

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This book was God-sent and biblically based! It is raw and truthful but compelling, and I am applying what I read immediately.

Excellent Teachings and Insights!

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I cannot recommend this book enough. Michael and Debi Pearl offer sound, biblical advice in all of their marriage and parenting books. The advice is very straight forward. Michael Pearl does not dance around topics like discipline, but instead gives blunt, sound advice on biblically training up a child. Highly recommend.

Phenomenal book!

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Both my husband and I love this book! we have applied many methods mentioned in this book and it made all of our family more joyful!

Discipline by the Bible

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I was amazed at the amount of hate this book gets. I’m not sure if many of the people commenting how horrible this book is, have actually read it. Nowhere does it condone abuse, it actually highly discourages it and advises parents to not train a child in anger. It also says to not train a child if you only plan on doing it halfhearted because it will have no outcome and that will actually be abusive. You need to do it right and be persistent. I think many of the people against this book are probably indoctrinated by the “gentle parenting” ideology, that when they hear the word “training” or “obedience” they automatically think abuse which is quite alarming. An obedient child is a delight to be around but a brat that gets their way all the time or has their parents trained is shameful and a torment to be around. I’ve seen both sides of parenting and I choose to stick with the one that raises obedient and delightful children. If you’re looking to raise children like that then you will get a lot of wisdom from this book. If you want to gentle parent than this is not the book and good luck on dealing with a little brat.

So much wisdom in child training

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