Dr. Drew explores the spanking controversy with Mike as one of the featured guests on an episode of the Lifechangers Show, “Is it wrong to spank your kids?” See Mike and the other guests and how they answer this very important question. Let Dr. Drew know what you think about this issue and how he presented by leaving your comments.
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Thank you for encouraging us to comment on the show sight! There was a lot of positive influence from these commenters here and probably more that did not discourage spanking. The world is so lost. And even though, as a commenter above said, that we may not change their minds, that is just what the Bible says. The road is narrow. Thank you for representing us Mr. Pearl! All of our family really enjoys your ministry, and are in 100% agreement with you!
Do you think Dr. Drew leans toward a certain view point on this topic? (sarcasm there) I am open enough to the fact that every family is different and will have they’re own unique qualities. If one can find an effective alternative to spanking to train THEIR children, then have at it. It irritates me, personally, when other people (strangers or friends) think that one way is the only way for every one. Even individual situations with the same child can call for different types of re-directing. When spanking is done on a child correctly, with love and care for the child, and for God (as in, every thing you do, do it for God), then regardless of the very short-term pain the child feels, only good can come out of it… because God is good. Mr. Pearl explains it very well in his book (something that no one with a closed-mind already and lack of research would understand) about appropriately and lovingly, without anger and frustration, handling discipline with children. That’s what I got most out of his book (well, that and consistency). Mr. Pearl, his family and his ministry has been a tremendous blessing to my family all around. And what it comes down to is: What does the Word say?
Ah, what can be done? My first impression while watching the videos was a sort of, “Why did he bother?” Dr. Drew had too many cheerleaders in the back elevating his opinions for him to listen objectively to Mike. And I’ve seen small children whine less about being lightly swatted, than he did.
But then I realized Mike didn’t go up there just because he wanted to change people’s minds, or rebuke the naysayer, rock the liberalist mind, but because he doesn’t have anything to hide; a great testimony in itself.
Haha, my favorite part:
Dr. Drew: “But then the dog bites you! It responds by biting!”
Mike Pearl (pointing to himself): “I’m a dog trainer.” So, please, let’s listen to the man who has actually trained dogs.
Everyone is so confused; spanking is not the sole instrument Mike and Debi advocate for training children. The media forgets that it’s about winning your child’s heart, and raising them in righteousness and godliness.
I watched a good portion of the interview on Dr Drew, and I saw the interview done on CNN last year with Anderson Cooper. I am saddened that Mr Pearl has to go on these sorts of television shows and defend this ministry, when these shows use the arrogant hosts and shots of obese audience members rolling their eyes at what Mr Pearl says to lampoon him and make him seem like he is a crazed revenger of parents against their children. They depict him as an advocate of what a few awful people have done to their (sometimes adopted) children, where the only link to this ministry is that the parents may have a copy of “To Train Up a Child” in their house somewhere, or they read a couple of things from the NGJ website and put into practice extreme forms of the discipline mentioned without any of the love it is based upon. The parent isn’t spanking the child to simply make the parent’s life easier, they are charged with raising an eternal soul which will likely someday be a mommy or daddy them self, and anybody who is thrust into the decisions of adulthood without realizing that adult decisions have big consequences has been short-changed and failed entirely by those charged with their diligent care!
But when they lampoon Mr Pearl, they are really lampooning God. The TV doesn’t want God in the lives and minds of the American public, and the American public doesn’t mind not having God because they have lots of other flashy things instead that they can focus on, or perhaps even a different, more tolerant god that isn’t so holy.
All that to say that I don’t pray for Mr Pearl and this ministry enough, but I will be more diligent to always make mention in my prayers this year. America is in a whole lot of trouble, and we need revival pretty badly. Revival we could have, II Chronicles ch 7 promises, if we will humble ourselves and pray.
Thank you Mr. Pearl for continuing to defend our Lord’s intentions for parenting. It is a shame that so few people are left in the world that want to abide by the Holy Bible and train a child where his or her life is promised to be a blessed one. Truth of the matter is not many parents are even raising their own children and they do not spend enough time with their children to know how to show them love at all. If Dr. Drew wants a batch of angry kids then he should start researching the ones whose parents leave them with nannies, daycare workers, and strangers while they are building a “better lifestyle” for the kid. Oh the horror of today’s world! Lord have mercy on us!
Prisons are full of adults who had absent parents…..this is thought to be a dad who abandoned them or a mother who was a drug addict…either way it boils down to absence…There is no difference in the working parent to day, its still absence and abandonment. Except now its even worse because its a slap in the child’s face to actually see the parent on a daily basis choose to leave them.
It’s sad to see the extent to which right has become wrong and good has become evil. How much we long for the coming Kingdom.
Brother, we trust that you are led of the Holy Spirit and are doing exactly what God wants you to do. May you stay encouraged.
In the situations where it appears spanking does not work, the root cause is the parent’s lack of love. Without love, yes, spanking doesn’t work.