Reply To: "To train up a child"

notasheep: There are nearly 3,000 one star reviews on Amazon, each one claiming that the book encourages parents to hit their children even infants. While I’m sure not all read the book, and many can miscontrue the authors intent, I’m equally sure that the book encourages parents to hit their child as a way of training the child to behave. That is unacceptable way of educating children. One doesn’t educate an infant to not touch things by smacking the kid.

I would assume telling a child 6-8 years of age, that if they touch what they don’t want them to touch, it would be sufficient to tell them that they would be asked to leave. End of problem for most children.