Lara's Reviews > Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children

This book was awful.

No clever, well written review. The book was horrible.

It's very 90's Christian and incredibly sexist. The examples are all fabricated - no one can accurately quote paragraphs years later. The authors are quick to point out how they have never been wrong, ever. There is a very dated look at family life and exceptionally redundant. The two authors are big fans of the golden rule even though we should really have moved on by now. The entire book could be summed up with "give kids boundaries so girls grow up to be quiet, dutiful mothers and boys grow up to stay away from drugs, because drugs kill."

I'll stop sharing my thoughts and instead just share some of the top quotes.

"The mother who says, 'You'll eat your peas and like them!' is headed for disappointment. Even Jesus dreaded his most horrible task: dying for our sins."

"Let me speak a word here to single parents: God designed the job of nurturing and rearing kids to two parents"