DebraBaker

Wonderful tangent. I read that book many moons ago and it did turn conventional thought on its ear.

That babies waking up at night was actually a *good* thing and that nobody *deserved* a good night's sleep. (If you sign up for certain jobs you won't always get a good night's sleep) I remember her equating mothering with the good doctor that gets up at night when a patient needs him.

That book really resonated with me.

I also remember reading pearl's materials a long time ago and some of it made sense (I was very conservative at the time, sort of Mennoniteish) and his earthiness appealed to me but then he got into the testing the toddler telling him to "come" and the toddler goes to the dad and the dad says, "oh, nothing, go back and play" over and over and over again until the toddler ignores the dad and then the dad switches the toddler.

I realized then and there that Michael Pearl had some problems and his advice contradicted many scriptures.

Debra Baker