<p>anyone here of something called blanket training</p>
<p>“blanket training” (as mentioned on their website and in some of their “quiver full” articles on other sites) is part of the teachings by Bill Gothard and Gary Ezzo. The whole point is to teach the baby to sit on the blanket and not get off or reach for things off said blanket. How you might ask?..by hitting them (a wooden spoon is offered as a suitable tool) anytime the try to get off or reach for something off of the blanket. Save your self some time by purposely putting objects off the blanket that they’d want and then start swinging away.</p>
<p>From a site, the Duggar site is not opening for me, so will research this some more, but hitting a baby for rolling around, my goodness, that is just a swell idea</p>
<p>Quiverfull goes way beyond opposing birth control. It teaches that women are not to have roles outside the home and that they are to work in the home under the authority of the husband. Homeschooling is of course crucial to protect children from outside influences.</p>
<p>The movement is also a lot about demographics: making sure that white people remain a majority in the US and Europe and trying to shift the population so that the religious right can outvote everyone else. Quiverfull folks talk a lot about the falling white birthrate in some European countries.</p>
<p>ETA: I just went to the quiverfull.com website, and sure enough, they’re advertising a book called: Birthing God’s Mighty Warriers.</p>
<p>At 9:00a.m., the older children help their buddies with their studies in phonics, math, violin & piano (J-O-Y- Jesus first, Others second, & Yourself last!). Then the older children start their music & individual studies- math, English, spelling & typing.</p>
<p>We break for lunch at 12:00pm. Jill (age 15) prepares lunch & we all help cleanup. After lunch we work to finish individual studies.</p>
<p>At 1:30p.m. the little ones go down for naps (4 & under). Momma & older children are around the table at 2:00p.m. for Wisdom Booklet group studies - science, history, law, medicine - part of our ATIA curriculm. We work on one subject until we complete the study. We also review & memorize scripture, hymns & operational definitions of character qualities. The children especially enjoy this because they make up motions to help with memorization.</p>
<p>At 4:00p.m., we break from group study to complete individual studies, otherwise this is free time. We have dinner at 5:00p.m. </p>
<p>9:00p.m. is Bible time with Daddy. This is probably our favorite time of day. Daddy reads the Bible & we discuss the passage together. We talk about the day & bring out points of how to apply what we have learned. We enjoy making up skits & acting out examples of right responses & wrong responses. Often our little ones will fall asleep as Daddy begins Bible time, still they love to be with us at this special time. Bedtime is 10:00p.m.
<a href=“http://www.duggarfamily.com/faq.html[/url]”>http://www.duggarfamily.com/faq.html</a></p>
<p>this is the core belief of their homeschooling “curriculum” a term I use very lightly</p>
<p>Remember that no academic textbook or tutor (by video, satellite, or Internet) can ever take a parent’s place in the teaching and training of children. This is not to say that parents should not employ these tools and helps. They have their place. (See Galatians 4:2.) They are useful accessories, not essentials, in teaching your children.</p>
<p>I would bet the parents have no clue what they are not teaching…</p>
<p>And they are liars and misrepresenting themselves on their website, all this talk about building the house themlseves, all debt free, well TLC supplied tons of contractors and paid for alot…but that isn’t mentioned on their site</p>
<p>I don’t like that this family is presented as some perfect paragon of Christian life, when they are sexist, when they are under educating their children, when they aren’t honest</p>
<p>I didn’t see anything about that website that proved the kid was “uneducated”. I guess if you feel that a proper education should inculcate a non-conservative viewpoint…</p>
<p>But just looking through the website itself, I don’t see evidence of illiteracy.</p>
<p>I see two major grammatical errors in the front page paragraph.</p>
<p>Josh must have gotten that equipment from TLC. In the show about building their house, he was showing off his audio/visual equipment and talking about how to keep the younger kids away from it. It also says on his website that he did some production with the TLC crew; I bet they loved that.</p>
<p>At least he’s trying to get a job, so one hopes he won’t be as reliant on big handouts to support his family as the Duggars senior seem to be. It’s no skin off my nose if people want to give them houses, appliances, groceries, etc., but folks are doing it now because it’s a relatively novel situation. When 17 brothers and sisters all have the 6-8 children minimum that Quiverfull families are told to aim for, that level of freewill support is just not going to be available.</p>
<p>It seems to be, from what I’ve read and seen, that somebody in that household (one or both parents) has great difficulty seeing their children as individual and distinct personalities. The ability to see each child as their own person, rather than an adjunct to the family or an extension of the parent, is necessary for healthy growth and eventual adult independence. It’s also important for a parent to be able to ‘let go’ when the right time comes. That does not seem to be what the Dugger family is shooting for. They seem to want to keep their children bound to them forever. </p>
<p>And the thing about ‘blanket training’ a baby is just horrific. Healthy babies are supposed to explore, to handle, to reach out. If that’s truly the way somebody is treating a baby, it’s time to alert Child Protective Services.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a lot of the Christianist movement believes in harsh physical punishment. <a href=“http://www.nogreaterjoy.com%5B/url%5D”>www.nogreaterjoy.com</a> advocates parents buy lengths of 1/4" PVC and keep them in every room of the house and in the vehicles both to intimidate children and to hurt them when they don’t do what the parent wants. They believe you should use the rod not just on a child’s buttocks but anywhere on the back, including the spinal column and feet, and should continue until the child “voluntarily surrenders his will.”</p>
<p>One mother who turned to this website for ideas on how to punish her adopted children ended up with one child walking with a limp from the beatings. (There’s a reason that canings in countries where the government uses them are carried out only by trained people: permanent injury and death can result). His brother died after she wrapped him up so tightly in blankets as a punishment that he couldn’t breathe.</p>
<p>By the way, many in the Christianist movement also believe in the use of the rod or belt for wives who aren’t properly submissive and obedient. They insist that what they’re doing isn’t BDSM or sexual in any way–it’s just about the use of violence and physical pain to control the wife’s behavior and attitudes, nothing dark or perverted at all.</p>
<p>It’s not just kids and wives, either. One of James Dobson’s books (The Strong Willed Child) also includes a lengthy paean to him beating his dog Siggie into submission with a belt:</p>
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<p>He claims to be embarrassed at the memory, but the story isn’t included as a what-not-to-do. Quite the contrary. It’s part of an explanation of the importance of imposing your authority on others. He insists that the only way to make this particular dog obey is to “threaten him with destruction.”</p>
<p>It is not about conservative vs liberal at all,its about an education that is obviouslly lacking</p>
<p>when the older kids spend a great amount of time buddying with the younger siblings</p>
<p>all college talk is about online courses</p>
<p>the syllabus they use is totally biblically based, even the math and science</p>
<p>this is not about liberal vs conservative, this is about seeing your children as workers, and all this claim about love, well, you don’t love a kid by forcing them as in infant to stay on a blanket, that is cruelty</p>
<p>Also, seems JimBob is a big marketer for a Financial Freedin program that is biblically based, and this “debt free” stuff is to market that program</p>
<p>I would be debt free as well if I didn’t pay fora large part of my house either</p>