Challenging Authority

Dealing with Slick Liars —By: Debi Pearl, May 2005

What do you do when you learn that one of your sweet little ones is an outright liar?

 


Ramblin' —By: Michael Pearl, July 2000

A young father dropped by to confer with one of my sons on some item of business. His little boy, not yet two years old, wandered over to the toy box and began to drag out all manner of interesting animals and colorful,...


The Will To Dominate —By: Michael Pearl, September 2000

The following article deals with a very important subject that we have touched on before but never discussed in detail—a child’s will to dominate. I chose this letter because it so clearly represents the many letters we...


Tumbling Tots —By: Michael Pearl, February 2007

You can learn a great deal about child training from watching other parents relate to their children.


Twinkie Twerp —By: Michael Pearl, September 1996

My wife was standing in a yard talking to the young mother of a seven-year-old boy and two girls. The girls are fairly obedient and even tempered. But the boy...


Why But Why? —By: Michael Pearl, March 1995

When a child is told to do something that he doesn't want to do, he will often ask, "Why?" It most cases the question is not prompted by a spirit of cooperative inquiry-, it is prompted by a spirit of rebellion.