PARENTING FREEDOM

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.”
William Arthur

Here are many of the encouraging comments people have made since I began blogging:

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I enjoyed it. There were lots of good links to articles too, and I was blessed by a lot of what you had to say, about family planning, child discipline, etc.

Your site looks great!

WOW! I think you did an excellent job on your website. It seems to cover everything! I wish I had something like that when I was a new parent. I spent a good long time there anyway.

I was very impressed with everything and it loaded beautifully

Thanks for sharing!!!

Carol, I absolutely love your website! It is great! Thanks for sharing your link with us.

I love your website!

What Carol said in her message and her testimony on her website is really quite good.

I couldn’t leave my computer without checking your web site. CONGRATULATIONS! I look forward to going through it. It looks terrific!

Oh, Btw, your site is really nice!!!!

Just surfing through and I had to stop and let you know that I think your site is beautifully done.

AMEN!! I really enjoyed looking at your site. Thanks so much for putting into words what I have believed ever since reading Raising Your Child Not by Force But by Love and Spiritual Parenting. But now I have the info in an easy-to-access form to show to others. Thanks.

A wonderful attachment parenting website in which a mother shares information and personal experiences and thoughts in areas such as pregnancy, caring for fussy babies, vaccinations, discipline, extended nursing, and more. There are lots of excellent Bible verses on this website.

wow! Just looked over some more of your site and you are just doing an awesome job!

I think you have a wonderful web site. It’s extremely informative. It describes you and your values perfectly.

I really enjoyed looking at your site.

I was browsing your website today and really enjoyed reading it. I see we have a lot of similar parenting decisions.

* * * * * Given five stars! And rated as one of top Five Web Sites!

An excellent source of straightforward, concise information on attachment parenting, homeschooling, family planning, gentle discipline, and more.

Keep up the great work Carol

It’s rather popular among a few of my friends as well! It’s been described as very well done, quite extensive, and very thorough, as well as informative, and just plain interesting. It was referred to during a few of our late-night girl talks… Very good job Carol!

Your site is a great resource for moms like me.

Btw, I’ve really enjoyed your website. Read quite a bit of it, though not all yet.

Well, I really like the web design you have– the right column side bar with the quotes and the Scripture. A couple of weeks ago when I first visited your site I was reading just the Scriptures, over and over, about “let the children come. . .” and so on. Wow. Truly powerful to see them all like that.

I directed her to the discipline page and I hope she reads it and is encouraged by it.

I recommend clicking on this site and reading through the discipline section… I was very blessed reading the way she includes
so much Scripture with ideas on parenting.

Your website has helped me learn so much and I know it helps others tremendously, too.

Your thoughts that you have written on your website have blessed me more than you can know– more than anything I’ve read related to this in a long,long time.

Just wanted to let you know I surfed into your site tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it! Loved the layout and all the information! Thank you!

i love your site i am for and support and practice these kind loving parenting ways no way but natures ways

Your website and fellowship have just blessed me so much.

Carol’s site has wonderful info on many alternative parenting decisions including links and articles. She is a wonderful supporter of spreading the word of Grace Based Discipline and you will find much that is good at her site.

thought provoking

I visited your site as well, I like the simplicity of it, very easy to naviagate!

I love your website.

I enjoyed reading through all your information!

I have visited your blog and website and found them to be a great resource for single parents. Even though your site not geared to the “single parent” family, much of your content is inspirational and beneficial to the single parent. The mission of my website is to provide single parents with as many resources and as much useful information as possible, so I have placed a link to your website on my site. thank you for creating a wonderful site

Stay-at-home mother, Carol, shares her inspirational voice and much more… covers core parenting issues such as attachment parenting, breastfeeding, child discipline, family planning, fussy baby, homeschooling, natural health, pregnancy, and vaccinations. Provides loads of helpful resources.

I know I’ve said it before, but I find your pages some of the most encouraging on the web– especially the Scripture that you have on the right margins. It’s amazing how convicting and encouraging that is to me. Rejoicing that you are able to minister to so many parents via the web!

Excellent article

I went by your website today (which I think is really nice)

Your site is really great !!

I am having a wonderful time exploring your fabulous site and will link to it… How neat to discover such an awesome AP website!

I love your site! So Cute!

I agree, a very nice site.

Interesting website. Worth a visit.

Thanks for your ministry.

I love your website so trust your taste immensely..

We like your site.

An excellent and well put together site!

I love your site

Thank you again for the helpful information. I always enjoy reading other people’s experiences and I appreciate you sharing yours.

You seem very wise

Your writing is soooo good. I really enjoyed your articles on parenting.

I am so impressed with the articles you have written! You have really blessed me so much with all the research on the “your rod and staff shall comfort me” and not spanking of children.

Helping parents consider decisions about their family, from a Christian perspective.

thanks for your site carol! i really like the lay out and find your links really helpful — i’ve got a lot of places to check out! i also sent a link to your site to an ezzo-following friend. i think your page is very kind in the way it encourages attachment parenting and gentle discipline.

I’ve been reading more of your website. It is very good. I’m amazed at the effort you put into all that research. You’ve done an incredible job of putting all that good information in one place.

I was most impressed with your websites. What a marvellous thing that you are first on Google…

really impressed with the quality of your site

Keep up the good work!!

I *love* your blog, and your site! I have learned so much from it.

Your web site is an amazing tool. I would love to have a site like that! I am so excited about the way you put your information out for others. Thanks,

I think your site is great. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great work!

THANKS A LOT OF FOR THE INFORMATION

I loved your site! Very well done.

I have really enjoyed the articles on your web site.

I read your blog every day

loved your site! I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to log your thoughts. I particularly appreciated your scripture verses. :0) You really have a gift of writing.

and HOLY COW this is a GREAT article!

Carol seems to have a great deal of insight.

Awesome I just wanted to let you know that I have really enjoyed looking through your site! You have some AWESOME pictures! I love the fact that you are pro-life! This is definitely a great website and I am extremely glad I came upon it!!! Thanks again!

completely and SOLIDLY debunks the “rod” myth.

Great Blog Carol!

I love reading you baby blogs.

i found your webpage realy informative and cute… Good luck and thanks a lot

Great webpage… Found your info to be very informative.

lovely site.. thank God for you and your family.

you have a wonderful site. Your entries give me hope.

I read your nice story.

You have been so encouraging on your blog

all your information is such a blessing in my life right now….

Thanks for what you are doing with the “Right to Life” focus of you site…

Hello Carol…Enjoyed visiting your pages. God bless you, yours and your sharing/ministry here on the net…around the world!

I love your web page – especially the Scriptures!!!!!

I enjoy your blog.

Nice to see a fellow Canadian with such a great blog, too!

Keep writing those fine, informative posts.

I have been reading your blog for awhile now and I really enjoy it. Your pictures are great.

Great article!! Thanks for posting it.

Nice web site!

Love these glimpses of your family!

I was just browsing on the net this morning and I came across your blog. It’s now marked in my favorites! Thank you for publicly writing some wonderful articles that are truly inspiring! Thanks for a wonderful read.

I came across your site and really like it. Thanks for all the advice. You’ve obviously put in a lot of time.

And I love your blog.

All I can say is WOW!!! What a tremendously excellent website you have–thank you SO much for putting it together for homeschooling mothers like me. How I admire what info I found on your website!

From pregnancy through health education and discipline, the articles of the parents on this site are well researched and scripture based. A very good section on the spanking issue comes down strongly for discipline that does not mean physical punishment. A very good resource for anyone who feels uncomfortable with the interpretation of applying “the rod”.

I am super excited that one of my favorite blogs of all time has returned! If you’ve never checked out Carol’s site, you’re missing out. She is awesome.

Carol’s Blog has often been a blessing to me

Great website Carol Just wanted to say thanks for the work you are doing through your site. Great job.
~ SM

I have spent the last hour or so reading your pregnancy blog. What an awesome witness!! I pray that God will continue to use your blog to reach mothers — to let them know the truth of the amazing little being that is growing inside them. Let’s pray that one day soon we can end the evil that is abortion!
~ JC

An excellent source of straightforward, concise information on attachment parenting, homeschooling, family planning, gentle discipline, and more.

Thanks for creating an attractive web site. How good it is to be about the Master’s business. Thank you, Carol, for labouring together for God’s glory.
~ MT

I’m came upon your blog from somewhere who linked to someone else who linked to you and I’m glad I did. Your blog is awesome.
~ S

I continue to enjoy your blog. As a new homeschooler with very young children I appreciate your wisdom and light-hearted approach to raising a family.
~ VC, MD

I have been reading your blog and I am thinking I have found a kindred spirit. I hope you don’t mind but I put a link to your blog on my blog.
~ CK

nice blog.
~ TP

Just stumbled onto your site yesterday while looking at a grace based parenting website. It is a lovely and very informative site. Thank you for maintaining it!!
~ HS

Don’t know you, but this is the second time I stumbled upon your blog. I’ve only touched the surface of your info, but I’m really impressed – and inspired.
~ SG

Thank you for all the information you have compiled.
~ TC

great site it is absolutely necessary that we have sites like these on the internet. sites that protect the rights of the child .
~ B

LOVE YOUR SITE! You’ve done an awesome job and have lots of great information. (I wish you were my neighbor!)
~ PR

Your research has provided me with great comfort. Thank you so much. i cant tell you how much peace your website has given me…
~ LL

I was just looking at your website and wanted to complement you on your blog.

I just wanted to say hi and complement you.
~JV

I have been reading your web-site and have really gotten alot from it thankyou for the time you take to give such Godly information to us woman.
~ CM

Just been looking through your website and found myself smiling as I was looking at the pics. Thanks really enjoyed your site.
~ MS

Your Website is Nice I just wanted to let you know I love your website. It’s packed with all kinds of good wholesome information. I love all the family pictures you have. Keep up the excellent work!!
~ LC

I wanted to say hello and that I really enjoy your site. I share many of your values and enjoy popping in and reading your site.
~ WP

I was just looking at your blog site. Very pretty.
~ JE

I just wanted to let you know I stumbled across your website about a year ago, and it has been an incredible blessing in my life. it has been a true Godsend
~ SB

one of the very best resources…

I enjoyed reading your thought-provoking website.
~ JM

Just a quick note to say what a joy to find your website! I am glad to have found your website and will continue to check it for anything new that you might add.
~ SR

Great website Carol Just wanted to say thanks for the work you are doing through your site. Great job.
~ SM

I wanted you to know how inspiring it was to read about what your family has been up to. I’ve gotten lots of ideas from you…
~ BJ

I enjoy your website very much. I particularly like the family focus “atmosphere” and the helpful, warm and friendly copy that really makes it an inviting site to come back to……great job.
~ JJ

I will pray for your ministry. You are doing a really good work.
~ TW

let me say that you have a beautiful website and I really appreciate the work that has gone into it.
~ ME

I just spent the last hour at your site. What a wonderful bit you have created. I pray many women are touched and helped through it. God bless you,
~ JC

I’m enjoying reading your blog Thank you for putting this all down as now I can get all the info I’ve been looking for. Keep up the good work you do informing people about the miracle of life and may you continue to enjoy your life and family and the happiness you deserve.
~ TC

Very interesting blog.
~ CL

I just stumbled across your blog. Way cool!
~ KC

Thank you for sharing your heart at internet.
~ TS

Hi Carol, great webpage. Thank-you for your investment. You have a beautiful family.
~ WA

Thank you… I am so impressed with the wisdom you’ve collected on your site. What brave, bold philosophy you state and support so well. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through the site…
~ EF

thanks a lot… I just want you to know how blessed I’ve been by reading your website. A little more than a month ago I visited your website. A lot has changed since then! I spanked because I read this in Christian childrearing books and because I was sure it was in the bible. I am very happy I read your article about discipline which explains these scriptures to me, and now I don’t have to spank anymore! I was crying because I was so sorry for the times I spanked my son and for the distance it created between him and me, but also because I was so happy! My husband and I agreed that same evening we would never spank our children anymore and it was such a relief to ourselves and our children. In the first weeks my son was a little confused about the borders/rules, but we explained we still had rules and borders, but we would not spank anymore. The most important thing that took place (and is still taking place) in my thinking is a shift from ‘punishment’ to love and grace, leading my child, teaching him. I also found some practical ideas at www.aolff.org about ‘grace based discipline’. Again, thank you so much! God used you to be a blessing to our family! May God bless you,

Keep up the good work!
~ KD

I would like to express my sincere thanks to you for hosting this web site. The information in the discipline section has helped me a great deal. I have been on a jouney searching for a biblical parenting framework. It all started when I read Tedd Tripp’s book titled “Sheperding a child’s heart” December last year. It was recommended by a friend. The book greatly disturbed me. Although there is some good information in the book, but the overall tone and message troubled me very much. At the time I was not aware of the meanings of the words “rod” and “child” in the Proverbs. The logic presented in the book seemed to make some sense. But deep inside I felt God never treated me that harshly and forced obedience on me by punishing every act of disobedience, how could I do this to my kids. I had so much inner struggle. My heart didn’t agree with the forced obdience logic. But my mind didn’t know what would be the alternative. Thank God for His love & mercy, I stumbled across some good interpretations of the original Hebrew words on the Internet, including your web site. I cannot say enough thanks to you and all the other people who take the time and effort to spread the truth. After this long soul searching journey, I almost have a feeling of enlightment. Now I realize all the verses in the Bible that talk about love, mercy, gentleness, respect and patience can be applied to the parent child relationship. Freedom! It’s like moving from under the law to under grace. I am also very interested in the information you shared about the supplements. Will look into it when I have more time. Thank you so much! Thank you! Thank you! Blessings,
~ GY

I am so happy that there are people who has researched this topic extensively so that many of us can benefit from the knowledge gained from that research. I plan to spread the word to other moms too. I feel very sad for the millions of children that are being raised with the misguided so called “biblical” punitive parenting method, and the millionsof adults that was raised this way.
~ GY

I have so enjoyed reading your posts and have learned so much about parenting from you, even though my children are older than yours.
~ C

I really enjoy your posts and your beautiful pictures of your family. YOU are a real thinker. You certainly practice what you preach and you are a wonderful role model for any wife, mother, teacher, business woman and friend. Enjoy the time with your children.
~ EM

I do hope some new people still find their way here to read all the great information you have on your site!
~ H

I keep going back to the pages of your main site, again and again.
~ T

I found your site very helpful, so thank you. …you are very articulate…
~ MG

I came across your website lately and I am so glad I did! Thank you so much for your web-site and extremely helpful information.
~ KF

I have read your blog for some time now. I feel what you say/write comes from the heart, and I trust you.
~ SB

I love your blog! I always appreciate your sage advice!
~ VC

I happened across your website and read your Pregnancy journal. Reading it gave me a real sense of peace mixed with anticipation about what I have to look forward to. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. God bless you and your family.
~ Dr. JM

your family is beautiful and you seem like a loving and caring mom…. keep up the good work
~ KP

Great site.
~ W.

I am very impressed with the new site!!
~ E.

Love the new site!!
~ J.

I feel very encouraged by your advice and perspective. Thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom and experience.
~ J.

I loved your site! Thank you & God bless.
~ J.

I’ve become more politically involved, mainly because of your newsposts.
~ D.

I’ve been reading (and enjoying) your blog for a while.
~ C.

I recently stumbled upon your website….. I want to tell you how much I look forward to visiting the site on a daily basis. It is truly refreshing in everyway from the other sites that I visit and have visited. It is a genuine bright spot in the middle of my day. Thanks so much and God bless,
~ B.

Go to the site www.parentingfreedom.com There you will find a lot of resources on attachment parenting and sleep problems.
~ R.

This is my favorite article on discipline right now. It addresses the rod verses in much more detail, as well as providing lots of other excellent info: http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
~ D.

I have read quite a few of the grace based articles, and I would like to leave you with this one, as I found it to be the very best one so far. http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
~ P.

I passed on to him the “Parenting Freedom” link– thank you for showing this to me!
~ M.

Click here (http://parentingfreedom.com) to learn more about listening to your parenting instincts – learning the way you were created to love. We were created for closeness, for love; for more than what we settle for.
~ B.

I just did a little google search that directed me to your webpage, which I found very helpful.
~ J.

Thanks… I browsed around your site and enjoyed it. I have added it to my list of daily sites to check… I admire those of you who are able to put your thoughts in blogs and on sites… Thanks again for your kind words and wonderful thoughts on your site. God Bless!
~ T.

Thanks for a great website. I am a parenting nut constantly researching parenting issues… I just happened upon your website and wanted to Thank YOU for a great resource…” Thanks,
~ A.

I love the new photo on your website. Freedom with boundaries! I think I’ll give a lesson to my kids on this tonight!
~ B.

I visit your site daily. It is apparent that we share the same values… Keep up the good work!
~ B.

Thanks for sharing and for your work in helping families.
~ S.

Great site, and congrats on your family. It is so good to see pro-life people.
~ J.

Your website is so wonderful. Finally, I’m not alone. The church we’ve been attending for the past year is very nice but equates spanking your children with being a Christian… It’s wonderful to read about all the Biblical reasons not to spank. I could just go on and on about what a blessing your website has been to me. Thank you!
~ E.

Thank you! Thank you for sharing the story of your little one’s development in the womb. It was so touching!
~ S.

I feel we are kindred spirits, we share the same views on almost everything.
~ S.

The reason for this email is to tell you thanks so much for allowing God to speak through you to issues related to parenting, birthing, co-sleeping, etc….I found your website this morning and was impressed by all the scripture. It resonated with our vision…
~ B.

…I was SUPER encouraged by your article/post “Is Spanking Biblical” and would love to read more about your family in hopes of gaining even more encouragement! Thank you for your blog and for the time you put into it!
~ C

Love your blog! I’ve linked to you several times when talking about “Biblical” spanking.
~ P.

I appreciate…what you do on your blog…
~ M.

Interestingly enough, tonight I was doing more research on CIO, and I found a website that talked about how CIO is not even Biblical and that it is extremely unnatural with how we are wired internally. It also discusses that taking advice to ignore baby’s cries is hard for parents to do and how they must fight very hard to follow such advice due to the fact that it is contrary to natural and normal maternal instincts. You may want to check it out, as it is a very good article and makes much sense. Even those who are nonreligious can relate to it and can understand the message it is conveying. It can be found at http://parentingfreedom.com/cry-it-out/

I cried at the end. Read it, and you’ll cry, too. It is a real tear jerker, and the way it is written–a vivid description what it would be like as if inside the baby’s mind–would give CIO advocates something to think about, as the author has worked very very hard to paint a picture of how the baby would feel enduring such a stressful situation, such as feeling abandoned. The author does such a good job that you almost feel like you are living out the baby’s lonely, sad, and painfully scary experience. What’s more, it gives the example of how a mother dog nurtures her puppies, and how she knows them best following nobody’s advice but her own loving motherly instincts–nurturing her puppies whenever they need it and responding to their every need. It is a very interesting approach.
~ D.H. 2008

I’m not a religious person but I really enjoyed this site. I have a very religious friend who insists on spanking. The article on that site against spanking is very extensive and informative. Now if only I could find a way to send it to her without ticking her off. hmmm
~ O.S. 2008

I found that site very interesting, thanks for the link.
~ K. 2008

Wow, what an excellent site!
~ L. 2008

The article was excellent, I am a Christian person and those quotes are excellent, and when backed up with the medical profession with the assessment of the brain functions that really hits a nerve with me. Having grown up in the generation where I was not to be picked up and a few gen’s before me also, we older moms could have used a few more cuddles in our youths.
~ G.M. 2008

Wow. This should be required reading. Thanks.
~ B. 2008

The website is www.parentingfreedom.com It is an attachment parenting site that speaks from a Biblical perspective.
~ D. July 19, 2009

THANKYOU… Thanks for a wonderful article… I am so thankful for those who are bravely challenging the “experts” who advocate beating kids… Yesterday we took our 4th grade SS class to the lake with their families. I was SHOCKED to see a mother with this big ole’ glue stick. She struck her son for NO GOOD REASON. I saw the pain in his eyes and he just withdrew. He was about 3. Then she struck another child numerous times because she didn’t want to go potty at the lake bathroom. It was awful. I came online to research WHO is suggesting GLUE STICKS! The first names that came to my mind were the famous Ezzo’s or Pearls. Yep, there it was! And then I found this site. Thanks for the wonderful info.
~ C. July 19, 2009

I just sent your website to all of my married Children… What a blessing to find a like minded person. It has been a long journey.
~ C. July 20, 2009

There are many people who the Lord is raising up to shed light on the tragedy of what is going on in the area of Christian Parenting. I do not find fault with innocent parents who are wanting to do what is right, and therefore parent out of fear instead of love. They are terrified to make a mistake that could cause their child eternal damnation. (that is so theologically askewed! But it is taught from the pulpits across America!) Our church leaders have failed us, and it is time to rise up… I cannot tell you how many embittered children and distraught parents there are out there. The children were quiet, pious, respectful, and ANGRY. The parents were BLINDLY following the likes of the Pearls and Ezzos. (both of which I feel belong in jail for promoting child abuse)
~ C. July 20, 2009

Sadly, I am one who did a little spanking when my older boys were little. I knew nothing else. But there was a knawing at my heart that told me it was not right. And I began to study the word intently. I found it to be “permitted” but not necessary. (years ago) Now with more understanding, I do not think it should even be permitted in our country. ( I’m probably out there, but I’m tired of the fear mongers) After what I saw at our Sunday School Picnic on Saturday, with this lady using a large GLUE STICK on her kid, I am all for outlawing corporal punishment nation wide.
~ C. July 20, 2009

I am in the thick of the Bible Belt of America… Let me tell you, I feel like I’m on the front lines of a huge battle that I don’t even comprehend. But, one family at a time, can change the world. Keep up the GREAT work!
~ C. July 20, 2009

You have researched your beliefs on life’s issues, while very few others have. When someone disagrees with you, they are doing it because they don’t want to believe that they are doing anything wrong or that their parents did anything wrong. They are also disagreeing out of ignorance… The people that do agree with you are open to learn, and your website makes sense. They found your website because they were searching for answers and wanted something better for them and their kids. Anyway, stiff upper lip and keep up the good work.
~ W. July 20, 2009

While researching how and when to spank my child according to the Bible, I came across your site. I had finished a rod study and was convinced I did NOT have to spank, but I wanted to know if I was the only one who believed this. Your site put many things I had read in the Bible into words that I could easily share with others.
~ T. July 22, 2009

there’s a great article on spanking/gentle parenting here: parenting freedom. it goes into great detail on the biblical case for spanking. very well done and very gracious.
~ T. July 2009

Here are some biblically-based resources for those who may have questions.
~ A. July 2009

An interesting read on the use of corporal discipline: http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
~ K July 2009

there is a good article here: parenting freedom, that deals with a lot of these questions and provides many more links and resources so you can explore them.
~ T. July 2009

Carol is a homeschooling mom with wonderful insights, curriculum suggestions, and, especially, insights on building relationships with your children. And be sure to read down through her list of quotes….you will be so inspired!
~ T.M. 2009

Hi Carol – I rarely visit other blogs. I honestly just don’t have time. But I was on your site tonight … and saw not only your new layout but the subjects you are dealing with. It is really amazing how sympatico we are on so many issues… I salute you.
~ B.C. December 2, 2009

Wow Carol!!!!
SOOOO much information …..so little time!!You have done a fantastic job here and I’ve only skimmed the surface! I know where I can go now when I’m wide awake in the night! Keep up this great site!
~ A. December 4, 2009

Wow! Everything is updated and looks different!
~ T.G. December 7, 2009

Thank you so very much for taking the time to write this excellent article. It is the most thorough, most well-researched article I have ever come across highlighting the reasons to not spank. Too many Christians today still believe in this sad way of punishment, and I believe it’s people like you that will so lovingly help to change that. I hope it will be read by many and that those people will be wise enough to listen to the truths presented… God bless you!
~ T.S. December 9, 2009

If you have never visited Carol’s site or haven’t been there for a while, please drop by. She has recently “remodeled” and it is chalk full of wonderful and wise thoughts from a homeschooling mom who loves the Lord!
~ K.C. December 10, 2009

I love to read your posts Carol and wish I had found you when my kids were little!
~ S. December 11, 2009

Thank you so much for creating this website! … I think your articles are doing an incredible service… Thank you again for your wonderful essays and resources…
~ S. December 11, 2009

i love your site or blog.
~ S. December 13, 2009

Hi Carol!
I am not sure how long I have been reading your blog (maybe a year?), but I just couldn’t read any longer without telling you thank you.
Although we disagree on a few little things… I absolutely love coming here. I can get my dose of political news and encouragement to keep going with all aspects of natural parenting, all in one spot.
I love your links, your quotes, everything. I have told my friends about it, and even my husband enjoys reading here.
~A. December 21, 2009

I LOVE the new format and look forward to reading your posts.
~ E. December 23, 2009

Thank you for such a wonderful resource. I link back to this site all the time, especially when I hear that we should spank our children because the bible says so and that people are using babywise. I love all of your information!
~ J. January 6, 2010

Hello Carol, I have found and poured over your site for 2 days now, and am truly enjoying it and am amazed at how we have so much in common.
~ K. January 7, 2010

i really enjoy your blog
~ A. January 23, 2010

This is probably the best article I have read! So much information!
~ May 2010

I was so impressed by your website. You have clearly given serious thought and attention to raising children, based on the Bible… keep up the excellent work.
~ S.I. February 3, 2010

She [Carol] is very Biblically oriented, quoting many scriptures to support her ideas. I like that! She has chosen a path that is not necessarily well traveled and that stood out to me as well. She really loves and cares about her kids, which is as it should be. She gives raising kids lots of attention and good thought, and resources, too.
~ S.I. February 3, 2010

i really loved reading about your family and parenting philosophy, even though i didn’t always agree.  i too am a christian homeschool mom, and glean alot of wisdom from you.
~ C.F. February 12, 2010

So again for comfort I’d stumbled across your wonderful website.
~ S.K. February 17, 2010

WOW! You have no idea how stumbling across your website in search of one particular homeschool book has changed our children’s and our family’s life forever!… I just wanted to say thank you for this site and the obvious time, effort, and energy put into it. It’s been a turning point in my life and my children’s life… Thank you for your website!
~ M.C. February 24, 2010

I have enjoyed reading your website.
~ N. March 16, 2010

I have just ready story of your baby http://unbornbabyjournal.com/ and i must tell you its really nice and i loved it…
~ R.J. March 28, 2010

You did an absolutely wonderful job on your web site!  It really looks like you are helping a great number of people. Keep it up; you’re doing a fantastic job!
~ L.T. March 28, 2010

I just want to say that I only recently came across your blog and I am so thankful that God lead me here… Thank you so much for writing on the topic of spanking, and doing the research, and applying biblical hermeneutics to come to the RIGHT conclusion.
~ K.M. March 31, 2010

Just a note to say I LOVE your website.
~ M.S. April 17, 2010

we have much in common… I am always excited and encouraged to find like-minds on the web… I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your site and will visit it often.
~H.B. April 21, 2010

You must me my lost identical twin…only 14 years older.  … You and I have SO much in common.
~ E. Aril 22, 2010

Your Spanking article was exactly what I was looking for.
~ B. April 23, 2010

I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for your site. It has always been a struggle to apply my faith to raising my children but you’ve given me the inspiration to keep at it. Your Bible verses are especially wonderful so thank you for that as well…  thank you for the inspiration you provide to so many without even knowing it.
~ C.L. April 26, 2010

Thank you for the journal entries of your miscarriage. http://unbornbabyjournal.com/river.html
~ L.W. April 28, 2010

wow, i am speechless… You blog has inspired me its beautiful.
~ T.M. May 22, 2010

Thank you so much for having this website. It has become my new favorite and I check it daily… Thank you for your website. It gives me so much hope and strength.
~ E.W. May 25, 2010

I really enjoy this site!… I thank you for all the time you have put in to writing here.  You have ministered to me (and my kids)!!
~ C.R. June 3, 2010

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I am glad to have found your site.
~ L.A. April 22, 2011

I feel the Lord led me here today
~ S.R. May 11, 2011

Just wanted to leave a note to say that I am so glad to have found your site!
~ S.H. Sept. 11, 2011

I pray that you continue to bless the internet with your wonderful website and that God is with you always!
~ A.M. Sept. 23, 2011

As a fellow homeschooling family (two girls, ten and one), we were delighted to read your website – I think you would be great next-door neighbours!
~ G.K. Sept. 26, 2011

I love your site, and it’s so nice to see another Christian mum who is raising her children in Gods natural way
~ M.B. Sept. 26, 2011

Dearest Carol,
I’m sure the Lord led me to your site. It is beautiful and inspirational! … want you to know that your site really is special and exudes your Christian discipline. God Bless you and your beautiful family!
~ D.U. September 27, 2011

I enjoy your blog & I look forward to your posts… Excellent article!… I appreciate you posting concerns we share in a thought provoking manner. Keep writing! I don’t often comment but I do read (& emphatically agree) with what you write.
~ C.A September 28, 2011

Thank you so much for your website. It is a bright light among a world of confusing and misleading information. Keep up the good work!
~ Beth October 13, 2011

I hope that we may be able to continue our communicating for many many years to come! I feel as if your an old friend already!! Thanks you again for everything!! God Bless you and your family!
Love, D. U.
~ October 13, 2011

…I just want to thank you for posting these bible verses because they are really comforting. May God continue to bless you all.
~ Tori October 19, 2011

But I came back to your site again today… and realized that I had never thanked you for all your help these last few months. Thanks for being you! It has been a tremendous blessing for me and even my husband. He also read your story after he walked in and saw me sobbing.

I pray that you continue to bless the internet with your wonderful website and that God is with you always!
~ A.M. October 23, 2011

…thanks for affirming our instinctive choices for our baby’s sleep!
~ Lori Ann October 26, 2011

I came across your website and I love it!
~ November 17, 2011

I’ve been reading your blog now for several months and very much respect your views.
~ S. November 20, 2011

I do appreciate your blog! It is very well put together and I am sure it blesses and encourages many people~ and improves the lives of many babies!

May the Lord bless you!
~ A.G. December 1, 2011

Thank you for your great blog! … I feel so anti-cultural…yet I believe that God has led me down this path of motherhood and revealed to me the way He wants me to raise my children. Thank you for standing strong in your convictions…it is nice to know I am not alone. It is so nice to know that other moms out there are fighting the good fight, and staying in the race no matter how hard it gets or self-sacrificing.

Thanks for your example!
~ J.C. December 2, 2011

Awesome website about natural parenting with a biblical application.
~ A.N. December 9, 2011

Carol,
I just wanted to thank you for your website. I’ve been really struggling spiritually for the last few years and in the last few days I started coming to some realizations. In my searches for more help online, I came across your blog, which has been eye-opening to me. I’ve not personally met active Christians who are also parenting the way we are. Through your blog, I feel like I have now.
Robin
~ December 13, 2011

Hi there from a fellow home school mom,
I just discovered your website and just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying it. What a great find! …
~ V. December 20, 2011

The Bible verses on this page were wonderful to read. God hears our cries and meets our needs. Moms and dads are to do the same thing!
~ Don December 27, 2011

Wow. I just read your 25 things, actually your website for the 1st time. I have raised my children already, but I will pass this on to my daughter as she raises her 1st child. I like your thoughts, your ideas, your doctrine. It is so refreshing to see the heart of Christ in parenting, rather than militant parenting or super permissive parenting, which are equally destructive. May the Lord continue to bless your efforts of outreach to parents everywhere.
In His love.
~ Lori January 2, 2012

So glad I found your blog; God knew I needed this now as I raise my spirited 3 yr old girl and 9 month old son!!
~ L. January 13, 2012

Thank you for posting the verses. They were exactly what I needed right now.
~ Rachel January 18, 2012

I just discovered your site and love it!
~ Erin January 21, 2012

Thank you thank you thank you. I have struggled so hard with this issue over the years. I do not yet have kids, but have been on the fence of which side of this debate I was going to fall on.

I was severely disciplined with spanking as a child, and it had longlasting negative emotional effects (depression and anger and authority issues, mostly). I also feel that this harsh childrearing (by loving and well meaning parents, no less) directly contributed to boundaries issues I had. In my early twenties this led to unhealthy relationships with friends filled with drama and manipulation. It also directly led to an abusive marriage. While my exhusband did not hit me, the boundaries issues led to severe verbal and emotional abuse, and eventually threats to physically harm me (this ended the marriage).

In my twenties, I always said that I would NEVER spank my kids. While watching my sister raise her children, and being exposed to the glut of extreme right fundamentalist parenting lit out there, I had my doubts, however, about the biblicalness of not spanking. Also, I saw how hard it was for my sister to parent her boy through a very tough tantrum phase where he was extremely defiant. She had had a general no spanking policy herself (due to our childhood) until his defiance got the better of both of us.

However, two things have convinced me that I will not and can not spank my child. First, watching my rage when confronted by my nephew’s naughtiness reminds me of the deep well of pain from my own childhood.

And this article has been key for me for exposing the unbiblicalness of spanking. Thank you thank you again for confirming what my heart feels.
~ Rebecca January 26, 2012

This was the best thing I have ever found to back up my stance on the fallacy of spanking and the Bible.
http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
~ M. January 15, 2011

I have made it plain on many occasions that I am pro-spanking. Before you start throwing things, I have really started questioning myself on this issue for the last few days. Discussion about the spanking study led to someone sharing this link with me, and it kind of rocked my world: http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/

In short, I am now seriously thinking I was wrong about spanking being the biblical way to discipline a child…
~ J.

Wow, what a neat article! http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
~ E.

“…I had a horrible experience a few years back when I got involved with a group at my church, many of whom were homeschoolers. My oldest was a toddler then and I was considering it. As I got more involved with them I started hearing things about Growing Kids and the Pearls. I had never heard of them. Then slowly over time I found out how horrific these sweet seeming people really were. They had done a large order of things they called “whackers” for beating their kids. They had done a coop preschool when their kids were little where they set all the 2 and 3 year old in chairs and beat them by their legs until they learned to sit still. They had hit their babies when they just started to crawl to teach them to stay on a blanket. On and on the revelations went and my husband and I were just horrified. These people seemed so nice! They seemed like involved loving parents on the outside.”

“…Another thing many of them did that the Pearls recommend is they kept a piece of that plastic string from a weed whacker in their pockets to beat their kids across the legs when they were out somewhere or in the car…”

“The worst story was a woman I considered to be a close friend. Her 2ish year old daughter didn’t like meatloaf. She made her sit at the table for hours in front of that meatloaf and the girl wouldn’t eat it. She kept gagging on it when she tried. The mom refrigerated it and offered it to her every single meal for 3 more days and refused to feed her anything else until she ate that nasty old probably food poisoned meatloaf. This had happened before I knew the woman and it was told to me by another friend who was similarly disturbed by it. That same woman told me in exasperation one day that she got so angry she bowled her toddler boy down their very long hall and he hit the wall at the other end.”

“The despicable thing is that these people act really sweet and nice and their kids seem happy because they are beaten into compliance and putting on an act…”

“…I really hate it when people say that they know the Pearls or Ezzo have bad things in their books but you have “separate the wheat from the chaff” or you have to “find the parts that minister to you” and ignore the rest. That’s like saying you have to separate the wheat from the chaff with Hitler or Fidel Castro! After all you might be able to say Hitler had some good ideas like a chicken in every pot, if you just ignore that whole holocaust thing. Ugh. Evil is evil and you can’t entertain evil and just ignore the parts you don’t like…”
~ M. February 2012

Your website/blog is a breathe of fresh air so badly needed in the church. Where were you when I was trying to figure out how to parent yrs ago.  I’ve done a 180 on the spanking thing and I’ve been so attacked by people in the church on this subject.  What a beautiful ministry you have. God Bless you and your family
~ R. February 9, 2012

Carol, I have been reading your blog and I’m amazed to meet someone who thinks so much like myself. THANK GOD Its nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks this way on all these subjects. I can’t wait to tell my husband and children about you!!!! … I would love to meet you some day, we are like kindred spirits. “Anne of Green Gables” I was meant to find your site, TOTALLY GOD!!!!!!  Big Hugs
~ R. February 9, 2012