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I think I should start skipping the introductions. Because all these books say: "This isn't like the other books that have pat answers and guarantee results" Ummm, I have yet to find that books so....

I'm loving this! This will be such a helpful, quick guide in the coming months. I also love that it has useful information for different moms who make different choices (bottles, breastfeeding, stay-at-home, return to work).
It's not meant to be exhaustive/have all the information to back stuff up, just a quick reference guide for moms (and dads).

Yes, this is a secular book. I'm finding my dive into parenting books *cough* obsession with *cough* has made me want to read a few with a very different worldview than my own.

I'm grateful for my mother and mother-in-law. They've shared stories with me about their hospital and home births, and they've shared about their medicated and unmedicated births. This book is very anti-medicated/intervention. Due to some complications in my own pregnancy, I'll be delivering at the hospital. If I didn't have the wise women I do around me, this book would be scaring me without backing up their claims.

Wow, that was a bothersome representation of gender roles in the Old Testament, steeped in modern understanding and reading of the Bible, not a deep understanding of how the law protected and elevated women. You don't have to tear down what God wrote in the Old Testament to see the beauty and hope of what is in the New Testament.

There was an excellent section in this book, and now it's gone rambling and not well-written. This isn't a bad book, but just not a great one.

After a long thing of what you should say to your kids the author was like "and that is what I wish I had said to my kids and never did"
Ummm, so you are probably not a good person to get scripts from because you obviously have forgotten how to talk to children.

Wow! I am glad my parents expected better from me as a teen... and treated me better.

I am so grateful my parents didn't us this way of doing discipline. Yes, they spanked us when we were little and took away privileges when we were older, but they didn't shame us, purposefully embarrass us, or show any pleasure in our pain (including the stuff we brought on ourselves). They showed love, care, and respect for your personhood from the time when we were little.

I'm sorry, your kids need to know you care about their behavior and feelings. Yes, you shouldn't act out or show everything you feel. But dealing out punishment like you care nothing shows your kids... *shocking* that you don't care or love them.
I'm so glad God shows us He cares about us when we are behaving well and when we're in sin.

And this is why spanking has a general bad rap. People like this make punishment of any kind into something vindictive and mean. (Yeah, this book is not going to get a good rating).

He's trying to be funny and but I don't think he's funny.
He had an absolutely pathetic idea of the amount of time parents should spend on spiritual things.
He talks very negatively about children in general. Again, he is trying to be funny but... It's just not.

I bought a copy for Scott and I to read together and we started with the introduction. This book is so good.

Even though I can already tell he doesn't support corporal punishment, I feel much more willing to listen to what he has to say because 1. he is so practical. 2. He isn't making a lot for sweeping judgments on every page.

I love some of the information and ideas in this book. However, there are two things that keep me from accepting a lot of what they are saying:
1. Almost all the toddlers I know who are exclusively gentle-parented are horrible to be around.
2. They make it sound like your kids will never learn to solve stuff on their own if you don't use gentle parenting or do use the rod. This is an incorrect blanket statement.

I still really miss the old way the Goodreads challenge page was set up. :(

There are two big issues so far:
1. They say truth is truth no matter who is saying it. In one sense, I agree with this statement, but my issue is this: your source matters. Where someone starts from to get their information can have a huge impact on the results
2. They make so many blanket statements about children who are spanked/punitive punishment with no regard to age or what else is going on in the home.

Well, this part is interesting. By interesting, I think they are trying too hard to make their point and are actually making me start to think they don't really have one.

While this book might not be one a woman might not want to pick up if she can't have children, I love how Furman keeps bringing in infertility and how it fits into the greater picture of God's plan and design.

Okay Mammas, I want to do some reading to prepare myself for having a baby in the house in a few months. Hit me with your best book recommendations for books on birth through the first year of life.

After an extended break, I'm finally working of revisions of the last Kate's Case Files book. I'm actually really excited on how it's coming.

So far, I'm not loving this book. We shall see how it turns out because I've heard such wonderful things about it.

Well, there is an awful lot of "Oh, before we go further, her is a detail from this characters childhood you should probably know"

I shared some pretty big news on my blog today. https://www.thedestinyofone.com/2025/...

I'm so excited about Kate's Truth releasing tomorrow!

That was one of the most beautiful speeches on why it's so important not to make decisions quickly based just on feelings. A little dated, perhaps, but still so beautifully put.

Authors, If you want to see if you have work that was stolen by Meta to train AI you can look up at this database: https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...

I just found out Meta stole from millions of authors and used their books to train AI without either permission or compensation. Even me. I've made the hard choice to leave Facebook and Instagram because I will not support a company that has stolen the work of so many of my author friends with my usage.
This choice may hurt me in sales, but I have to stand for what is right.