Lots of Love & a Spanking!: A Common Sense Discipline Plan for Children from Birth to Age Twelve That Works [Paperback]

Jamie A. Pritchett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0965608719 | ISBN-13: 978-0965608718 | Publication Date: May 1997

Lots of Love and a Spanking! is a disciplnie plan for children using the old-fashioned method of spanking to teach obedience and respect. But spanking with a difference! Not the screaming, red-faced, violent beating that many people imagine when they hear the word; but "a few hard whacks on the bottom, given by a calm parent, followed by a loving talk explaining how much the child is loved, why he got a spanking, and how to avoid getting one in the future." This book explains why current discipline philosophies are not producing polite, obedient and cheerful children, and that our entire country is seeing the results of those inadequate discipline methods. This book combines the "firm hand" approach of our forefathers with the self-esteem and anti-violence concerns of today. A one-of-a-kind book!

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

These books examine child discipline, with spanking presented as an effective or ineffective method (depending on the viewpoint). A father and a family therapist for 30 years, Hyman (psychology, Temple Univ.) bases his discipline models on research and clinical observations. He offers parents a number of alternative strategies to physical punishment, including understanding child psychology, systemetizing rewards and punishments, and defusing anger in both parent and child. In contrast, Pritchett, a mother and stepmother, offers a discipline plan based on spanking as the only effective deterrent in training children to be obedient and well behaved. Her book begins with a description of spanking (two to five hard whacks on the bottom with a paddle followed by loving admonition). Spanking is deemed the appropriate parental response to all children for breaking family or house rules, defiance, lying, cheating, stealing, bad language, and any form of disrespect or disobedience. Pritchett cites the Bible as her reference. Hyman is a good addition to most public library parenting collections, but while one would like to present an opposing viewpoint, Pritchett, whose advice is neither comprehensive nor based on current research, cannot be recommended.?Kay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills., Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Jamie Prichett was born in Germany and has lived in five different countries and three U.S. states. Her extensive travels have permitted a continuing study of parent/child relationships. Seven years ago, Jamie set aside a promising art career to homeschool her children. She has taught several high school classes in a homeschool co-op and gives private art lessons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Little Palm Pr (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965608719
• ISBN-13: 978-0965608718
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,463,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars From my perspective..., July 18, 2007

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This review is from: Lots of Love & a Spanking!: A Common Sense Discipline Plan for Children from Birth to Age Twelve That Works (Paperback)

I have suffered severely at the hands of people like this author... who believe in spanking as a solution to every problem. Parents like these are completely unaware of the effects they have on their small, trusting little children when they spank them as a first, second, and last resort to every behavior. The severity, frequency, and motivation of these spankings (which this author is encouraging) can have a brutal, irreparable effect mentally and physically on a child.

I have researched this topic for months, from Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking: Practical Solutions to the Most Common Preschool Behavior Problems to Spanking: A Loving Discipline : Helpful and Practical Answers for Today's Parents, and everything in between, trying to find out if there is a way to raise a happy, healthy, well-balanced child while using spanking as a discipline.

From my perspective as a still-recovering victim of this woman's type of teachings, I have decided for myself that spanking a child is not cruel or abusive, and can produce normal, happy children. HOWEVER- IT MUST BE DONE IN MODERATION, AND ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS IN LOVE. I cannot stress this enough. If you grab a child by the arm, spin him around, and smack him until he wails in terror, you have GONE TOO FAR. Comparatively, the long, drawn-out, painful spanking rituals, processes, and steps that this author condones are not healthy, and are certainly not loving! Her methods intend only to force a child to behave through violent force and use fear of pain to control their every behavior. Parents should never, never, never, never spank their child in anger.

There are healthy middle grounds to this type of discipline. And, in contrast to what this author believes, spanking is not about the pain of the punishment. More pain does NOT mean better behavior.

Finally, I must stress that one of the biggest factors that contributed to my own suffering was the horrible idea that the child must be stripped bare from the waist down in order to what... feel the spanking? The only thing that this will do to a child is cause unnecessary humiliation and shame. The only time a parent should force their child to remove their clothes is when they are very young, and desperately need a bath. Even a child has rights to the boundaries of their own bodies... and to intentionally violate these boundaries and force them to expose themselves for punishment is very simply not conducive to a healthy child. This sort of spanking practice will leave a child feeling helpless and violated, unable to defend or protect themselves from their physically stronger parents.

I am seventeen years old. I have never written anything so difficult in my life, but I have written it in hopes that it will spare even a couple of children from the harmful effects of the type of spanking that this author condones.

19 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Promoting the Oxymoron, June 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lots of Love & a Spanking!: A Common Sense Discipline Plan for Children from Birth to Age Twelve That Works (Paperback)

Love and hitting are antithetical. This author tries to make you think that the easy, violent approach to discipoline is loving. Hogwash. It isn't.

24 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another "Christian" book promoting violent parenting, July 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lots of Love & a Spanking!: A Common Sense Discipline Plan for Children from Birth to Age Twelve That Works (Paperback)

Yet another supposedly Christian view based book that promotes hitting children. Only for the brain dead, cultish, fetishist or lazy, violent parent.

Avoid it.