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Remember Blair from 'The Facts of Life'?....  

post #1 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:41pm
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Around this time last year she advocated putting clothespins or tabasco sauce on child's tongues for punishment and to get them to submit to her and Jesus Christ, remember?

Well, if you check out her latest blog entry, she can't seem to spank her kids enough!

It's okay to beat your kids - so long as you're doing it in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ???

Fruitcake.

(Wasn't sure if this should go in spirtuality or GD or tv.)
post #2 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:44pm
Wow, that was depressing. May that book she is working on never get published!
post #3 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:44pm
that is so sad.
post #4 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:48pm
"I feel like I'm spanking them all day long and yet most days it feels like that's not enough"

MY GOODNESS!
post #5 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:49pm
I feel like i am going to vomit.

In the past, with celebrity or has been celebrity threads, alot of the bashing was based somewhat on speculation. For instance, i criticzed julia roberts for not carrying her babies. Someone pointed out that she might have two broken arms (j-k!)....or a million other reasons why i and others should give her the benefit of the doubt.

But in this case, its in her own words. "I cant spank them enough" or something like that. Is this woman on crack?

Something is very very wrong with this woman.
post #6 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:50pm
That is actually an entry from her old journal she use to write when her kids were very little--they are all teens now. I wonder if she still beats them?
post #7 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:52pm
I know, I read that too and cringed. She actually lives down here in the Dallas area, and belongs to one of the homeschool groups that I belong to. She is a genuinely nice woman, and seems to have a wonderful relationship with her three children (who are all pre-teen/teenagers now). But some of her discipline techniques are scary!
post #8 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:53pm
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It's just they aren't born that way and it takes a real war to get them to come under the submission of me and the high calling of Jesus Christ.
: Submission? Yikes.
post #9 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:53pm
She's a nut! :

no offense to all you cashews.
post #10 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:54pm
Ive run into her writings in various homeschool circles on line. Needless to say, she and I raise our children very differently
post #11 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:57pm
That is so upseting
post #12 of 63
4/26/05 at 6:58pm
cashew here. lol Her end product is one I strive for also (submission to God and all that jazz) , but we go about it in totally different ways. I discipline my DOGS gentler than she disciplines her kids. Another good example of one christian making the rest of us look like paddle weilding lunatics.
post #13 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by MerryOne
she has some issues
I would usually say she needs God, but well.............................


I WILL say that is what she needs. I have never understood this whole "spare the rod, spoil the child" thing. Is that even in the Bible? I am a Christian and it is so obvious to me that the way to raise the children that we have been given to raise, is to love and nurture them. As for what Jesus would do, I seriously doubt that he would run out to buy Tabasco, much less hit.


It's just they aren't born that way and it takes a real war to get them to come under the submission of me and the high calling of Jesus Christ. This line just makes me sick. So to get to the "high calling" of Jesus, one must whip ones kids? Sick blech and poop on you!
post #14 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by scrapadoozer
Wow, that was depressing. May that book she is working on never get published!

Unfortunately, she already has at least one published. One of her little gems is pulling your child's hair if they won't walk next to you in a parking lot.

Seems they'll let any 'ol nutjob media has-been publish a book.
post #15 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by Dallasmama
I know, I read that too and cringed. She actually lives down here in the Dallas area, and belongs to one of the homeschool groups that I belong to. She is a genuinely nice woman, and seems to have a wonderful relationship with her three children (who are all pre-teen/teenagers now). But some of her discipline techniques are scary!
I know what you are saying--I use to read her blog when she took her family on that trip around the U.S....I thought it was neat that she did that as a part of her homeschooling. But then weird things would creep into her posts from time to time--and eventually I realized that she just comes from a totally different point of moral reference than me.

She is a very conservative born again Christian (not that theres anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld would say) and is very into the "spare the rod, spoil the child" type of mentality. She thinks the bible teaches that, and it is her duty as a good mom to follow through. She also was horrified when they went to the museum of natural history on their trip because there were several exhibits that flew in the face of their beliefs on Creationism. She had her kids skip the second floor and all it's exhibits because it was all about evolution.

Anyway--obviously she is a very devoted mother, but her idea of proper discipline is a world away from gentle! Her husband is a minister and she has a thriving career speaking at Christian parenting events.
post #16 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:03pm
That is really creepy and sad. I don't remember who she is/was. Does anyone have a pic they could post?
post #17 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:05pm
Loovely. Yet another cashew (:LOL) to make the rest of us Christian-but-also-reasonable-human-beings look bad. :
post #18 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:06pm
"spare the rod, spoil the child"

am i the only one that hears that like this:

spare the rod meaning refrain from using the rod &
spoil the child meaning actually "spoil" or dote upon/cherish/love your child

?????

or am i just making this up...i've never even read the passage where it says this...

and i'm not christian

anymore, that is.
post #19 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:08pm
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Originally Posted by MamaAllNatural
That is really creepy and sad. I don't remember who she is/was. Does anyone have a pic they could post?
http://www.lisawhelchel.com/images/facts7abg.jpg
http://www.lisawhelchel.com/images/facts11bg.jpg
post #20 of 63
4/26/05 at 7:10pm
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from Lisa : She also was horrified when they went to the museum of natural history on their trip because there were several exhibits that flew in the face of their beliefs on Creationism. She had her kids skip the second floor and all it's exhibits because it was all about evolution.
: I've done that too for the exact same reasons. BUT then when I was more prepared to answer questions we went back.

I think it's Proverbs 13:24 that says speaks of discipling with a rod.
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