Challenging Authority

Dealing with Slick Liars

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

 

By: Debi Pearl
Date: May 2005
Topics: Challenging Authority

Ramblin'

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,...

By: Michael Pearl
Date: July 2000
Topics: Challenging Authority, Art of Training

The Will To Dominate

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...

By: Michael Pearl
Date: September 2000
Topics: Attitudes, Challenging Authority, Emotional Control, Toddlers

Tumbling Tots

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

By: Michael Pearl
Date: February 2007
Topics: Attitudes, Challenging Authority

Twinkie Twerp

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...

By: Michael Pearl
Date: September 1996
Topics: Boys, Challenging Authority

Why But Why?

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.

By: Michael Pearl
Date: March 1995
Topics: Challenging Authority, Parent/Child Relations

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