“We’re scared of Hollywood, the Internet, the public school system, Halloween, the gay community, drugs, alcohol, rock n’ roll, rap, partying neighbors, unbelieving softball teams, liberals and Santa Claus.” The result can be that your fears determine our strategy for parenting. Fear-based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated kids.
Evangelical Behavior-Modification Parenting
This strategy “assumes the proper environment, the proper information, the proper education, and the absence of negative influences will increase the child’s chances of turning out well.” Behind it may be two flawed assumptions: “(1) that the battle is primarily outside the child; and (2) that the spiritual life can be transferred onto a child’s heart much like information placed on a computer hard drive.” The child’s heart is left out of the equation.
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