The Responsiblity Train

The Responsibility Train

By Shalom (Pearl) Brand
My two-year-old son Parker loves to build trains. He has a big “Tom the Train” set, and he is always looking for someone to sit down and build a long track so he can push his train over the track while he makes chug-chug, choo-choo sounds. I can remember when Parker first joined our family train as the caboose, just being pulled along behind the rest of us, enjoying the ride. It was obvious from the start, that he knew without him we would not be a whole train—that he was needed to make us complete. As he has grown older, ... Read More
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Pubermania

Michael Pearl

Mother number One: “I simply can’t understand what has happen to my son John. He has always been the one child I could trust to always do right. He has always been so thoughtful, polite and sensitive to the…

Read Article February 1996 1 comment
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One More Time

Susanna

Potty Training at Three Months

Read Article January 1996 4 comments
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Training Teens

Michael Pearl

Dear Michael, I have a fourteen-year-old son who is worldly minded. He gets his hair cut so that his bangs hang down over his eye on one side.

Read Article January 1996 1 comment
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Volley Ball No Bawler

Michael Pearl

This past fall on the volley ball court another episode in the ongoing saga of child training was played out on a nearby pallet where a mother daily deposited her crying nine-month-old daughter.

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Training at Three Months

Michael Pearl

One of the young mothers in the church tells how she trained her three-month-old daughter to cry and whine to be picked up and held.

Read Article December 1995 10 comments
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Tot’s Talk

Rebekah (Pearl) Anast

I overheard two little tots. Discussing in great length Just why their mamas spank them. It made me pause and think. “My mommy spanks me when she’s mad,” I heard a young voice say, “It makes her angry when I’m … Read more

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To Train Up a Child

Michael Pearl and Debi Pearl

Excerpt from the book “To Train Up A Child”, by Michael and Debi Pearl.

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The Opinion of Three

Michael Pearl

As we sat at the kitchen table talking with T. J. Slayman, he expressed his views on home-schooling and rearing strong young men.

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Two Fathers

Rebekah (Pearl) Anast

Once there were two fathers In houses side by side. Each had a little boy The apple of his eye. One raised his son in love and care And made him to obey.” He taught him from the Bible, And … Read more

Read Article September 1995 1 comment
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Plowing Under Weeds

Michael Pearl

Last week I was in Florida staying in the home of a young family. They had a son, 2-years old, who exemplified good training.

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