Sarah’s Reviews > Parenting Is Hard and Then You Die: A Fun but Honest Look at Raising Kids of All Ages Right > Status Update

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.

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.