Christian homeschoolers receive maximum jail time for death of child

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22. You're correct. All punishment - no rewards.

I've never trained my dogs that way.

Here is an example passage from the book that is ridiculous:

NEGATIVE TRAINING
How many times have we observed the grocery store arena? A devious little kid sits up in the command seat
of the shopping cart exercising his "childhood rights" to unlimited selfindulgence. The parent fearfully but
hopelessly steers around the tempting "trees of knowledge of good and evil." Too late! The child spies the
object of his unbridled lust. The battle is on. The child will either get what he wants or make the parent miserable. Either way, he conquers.

One father proudly told of how he fearlessly overcame by promising the child ice
cream if he would only wait until they left the store. Such compromises will simply confirm the child's terrorist tactics. You are not
gaining control of the child, he is gaining control of you. All children are trained, some carelessly or
negligently, and some, with varied degrees of forethought. All parental responses are conditioning the child's
behavior, and are therefore training

The father's method of training his child to behave is perfectly acceptable. Granted, he shouldn't buy the kid ice cream every time the leave the grocery and the kid behaved. But the Perls are condemning training with rewards for good behavior and only the threat of the rod when there is misbehavior seems to be acceptable to them.