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By: TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Our 6th Annual Ezzo Week(end) 2009

TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Our 6th Annual Ezzo Week(end) 2009 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:11:54 +0000

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By: Cogito

Cogito — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:25:51 +0000

Thanks for this – I had no idea there was an Ezzo awareness week, I just happened to start blogging about them shortly after it!

Thanks also for the link regarding logical fallacies and Ezzo – very interesting, comprehensive resource!

By: TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end) 2008: Through the Years

TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end) 2008: Through the Years — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:26:43 +0000

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By: TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end): Teaching Toddlers

TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end): Teaching Toddlers — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:52:16 +0000

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By: TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end): Nurturing Newborns

TulipGirl » Blog Archive » Ezzo Week(end): Nurturing Newborns — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:02:18 +0000

[...] post is part of the Ezzo Week(end) 2008 series, raising awareness about the concerns with the parenting “philosophy” promoted by Gary [...]

By: TulipGirl

TulipGirl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:48:02 +0000

Melinda, what you experienced is very similar to what I’ve heard other mothers share. . . In a basically healthy family some good is gleaned — but the underlying “philosophy” tends to lead towards us shifting our focus from Christ to trying to make our families “fit in” to what we think they ought to look like.

I truly believe, though, that God’s grace and a mother’s love covers so many of those mistakes in parenting!

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:31:39 +0000

We used GKGW for a few years when our teens were preschoolers. We were living overseas with the military and had good friends nearby but no grandparents or other family. Not even a sound home church. So we did what was trendy and what seemed to work for others.

We taught our kids to use some sign language, taught them the interrupt rule, to obey first time and to be a blessing to others. Those things stuck and are still part of our family. But what I observed in myself was a tendency to be very rigid in my parenting, very either-or, very black-and-white without room for the grace of God. It did become a behavior modification tool, and maybe that’s just where I was spiritually 12 years ago, but it was all rules-based. Blessings and cursings, if you will, based only on pleasing the parent, not God.

With our fourth, I picked up BW and tried the whole scheduling thing. What I will say is that our kids do like their room-time and have benefitted from ideas like that — learning to be disciplined at an early age to not be peer dependent but able to go into a room and be creative with what’s there. Not always looking for entertainment but able to spend time wisely. That’s cool.

But the whole system now makes me shudder and wonder how things could’ve been done differently if we had relied on GOD more back then and not just the latest parenting fad.

The Bible is sufficient for all we need.