Creative Correction: The Bible Study: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline

I mostly enjoyed this study, and think that the author is well versed, however, my child is between 2 and 3 and many things aren't totally applicable to young ones. Seems like better ideas for 5+. I did enjoy her ideas pages at the end of each chapter for how to teach your kids certain traits. I'll come back to that and maybe reread the study in a few years. The homework was only so-so I felt. I enjoyed the ideas of how each child can be different and needs some "creative thinking" to teach.

This book is great for parents who want to make discipline about more than just behavior modifications. This book gives practical ideas for teaching your children. It also give tons of scripture to use as the basis for discipline and teaching moments. Great Book.

Great read!!

This book gave me so many wonderful ideas, for minor problems. Also, there were many great ideas to be closer to God as a family. I have recommended it to many other people.

Used this book as a mom's church group study. We loved the practical advice and all the wonderful ideas that it gave us

This Bible study series is great. Lisa is real, likable, and the advice is helpful. I've led this study at my church and absolutely nothing in this book is objectionable. There are hard line anti-corporal punishment nazis who blacklist this book, in addition to other books that do not object to corporal punishment. Lisa believes that spanking is appropriate in certain situations, as do I and every other mother I know. The point of this book and the Bible study, *however*, is to provide parents with effective alternatives to the usual swat on the tush that, let's face it, most kids ignore. Lisa suggests children should be held accountable, given choices when appropriate, and showered with loving guidance and grace as they move into adulthood. I don't know how anyone can argue with positive reinforcement and instilling values.

Somebody should review this book for legality as some of the content in this book would be classified as child abuse. I am not a law enforcement professional, however, I do work with Military Police on a regular basis and conduct training with them regularly as what qualifies as child abuse and what does not. Even on the back jacket cover, it suggests using tabasco sauce on a child that was lying to 'spank their tongue'. As an adult, a lot of the content in this book is a sure way to have your child resent you and hate you as they get older. Very toxic. Stay clear of this terrible book. No wonder it is no longer in print. It should not be legal to sell this.

I've hesitated doing this and I hope it will not hurt Clancy the youngest daughter of Lisa. I've read a blog of her. She wrote down all the things that feel like she can NOT ever do. I think some point of the list show how destructive Lisa's ways are."6)I am absolutely completely and utterly terrified that I won't ever be able to get over my all-consuming fear of abandonment. It is such an overwhelmingly huge and deeply rooted fear that shows up in almost every aspect of my life, I don't think I will ever be healed from it in order to become whole. ""3) I feel like I'll never be able to be completely confident in myself, in who God made me to be. Because I look to others so often that my idea of myself will always be based on what other people think. ""1)I feel like I'll never be whole. I feel like I will always be needy, I feel like I will always be dependent on another human, I feel like I will always be let down and hurt and disappointed by the person I most love because of the amount of pressure I put on them."In addition to what seems to be emotional dependance and abandonism syndrom, she also doesn't trust her ability in taking decisions for herself (as had predicted many reviewers):"2)I feel like I won't choose correctly for my life. I'm scared that I am going to choose based on my emotions and my feelings and end up really messing up my life and being miserable."Neither is she confident enough to have her own opinions. Clancy suffers from how easily influenceable she is:"4) I'm scared that I'll never be able to have and/or stick to my own opinion. I feel like all of my thoughts are based on what other people say and believe and it often changes with the wind. "You can read this here http://clancycauble.blogspot.fr/2010/09/roller-coaster-or-spiraling-dowfall.html.Who would want one's child to be emotionally dependant, influenceable and unconfident to the point of being unable to have her own opinion, copping with an all-consuming fear of abandonment ... ?I do think it's really courageous from Clancy to be so open about herself. I felt great sympathy for her by reading her blog and I really hope I'm not hurting her in any way by using it for this review.As she's still worhsipping (I think that's the word I'm not using it in a pejorative way) her parents, I'm afraid she will never question the way she's been treated by them and might even be considered by some people as a proof that Lisa's ways worked: she does look like a very beautiful, happy and confident young woman on the outside.Once you've read her blog, you see that she often feels pretty low. But on the pictures taken at the same time, she does looks happy: I guess this is an example of how deceptive appearances can be. I hope noone will ever be so naive as to take what Lisa's children look like on the outside for a proof that the way she treated them wasn't harmful...I'd also like to add that from what I've read on Lisa's former blog, she's very used to say one thing and do another: while there is no doubt she's treated her children in an awful way, she hasn't used all of the "ideas" of her book. Please don't stick to this book to raise your child. Not even Lisa has. And she has already deeply damaged her children's emotional and psychological health.(I'm french sorry for my poor english)(I don't question the fact that Lisa might love her children and that her relationship with them might also have some very positive aspects. Lisa (who has probably been raised in the kind of way she advocates for in this book) seems to struggle with many emotional insecurities herself (for instance she has confided that she had never had any close friends until her 40's because she felt she had to be perfect in order to be liked. She has also explained how eager she is to please others even at the cost of forgetting her own feelings or opinions). I can feel sympathy for her but while I don't pretend to know how aware she is of what she's doing, I have no doubt her book is a really dangerous one.)