The Shady World of Right-Wing ‘Discipline’ Guides
From the page:
In The Strong Willed Child (Living Books 1992), Dobson makes a parallel between beating children and beating dogs:
“I had seen this defiant mood before, and knew there was only one way to deal with it. The ONLY way to make Siggie obey is to threaten him with destruction. Nothing else works. I turned and went to my closet and got a small belt to help me ‘reason’ with Mr. Freud.
“What developed next is impossible to describe. That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling and swinging the belt. I am embarrassed by the memory of the entire scene. Inch by inch I moved him toward the family room and his bed. As a final desperate maneuver, Siggie backed into the corner for one last snarling stand. I eventually got him to bed, only because I outweighed him 200 to 12!
“But this is not a book about the discipline of dogs; there is an important moral to my story that is highly relevant to the world of children. JUST AS SURELY AS A DOG WILL OCCASIONALLY CHALLENGE THE AUTHORITY OF HIS LEADERS, SO WILL A LITTLE CHILD — ONLY MORE SO.” [Emphasis Dobson’s]
Further reading: Preaching Virtue of Spanking, Even as Deaths Fuel Debate
Corporal Discipline is strongly supported by God in the Bible
For the record, I couldn’t remain married to a man who treated a small animal so inhumanely, much less commit to raising children with him. This man shouldn’t be giving parenting advice, plain and simple.