Teach Them Diligently. How To Use The Scriptures In Child Training

Customer Reviews

The book confuses discipline with spanking

2008-07-22
This is another book which preaches to parents to spank their children because the bible commands them to do so. It is written in the bible that a woman who is not faithful should be stoned to death. Does it make this kind of practice right? The author emphasises that the spanking should be strong enough to cause pain, other wise it isn't effective. If spanking was effective why would parents have to do it again and again? The book confuses discipline which means to teach, with spanking. If the bible is a moral guide for a parent then he shouldn't use hitting since hitting is an unjust practice and it provides an immoral model for the child.

Absolutely Awesome

2008-07-06
This is one of my favorite parenting books ever! It has made me love my kids even more, and love parenting them. It takes parenting from being about me to being about them and their relationship with God. A life changing book!

Great Book

2008-06-28
Lou's Book has been a great resource for parenting from the biblical perspective. His application of the scriptures in this challenging area of christian living is so helpful!

Teach Them Diligently: How To Use The Scriptures In Child Training

2008-05-08
I thought this book completely hit the mark on what, we as Christian parents need to be doing in raising godly Christian children. This book is hard for many "luke warm Christians" to "hear" because it is not the "easy route" by any means. This kind of parenting takes a deeper more convicting FAITH then many Christians are willing to follow. This kind of parenting takes dedicated, involved, hard work. It won't work for folks who only see their children for a few hours before and after work. If God has called YOU to parent your children biblically and not hand it over to other intitutions this is the book for you.

Valuable parenting book

2008-04-27
Thank you Mr. Priolo for writing this book! I see some are slamming your work (who probably haven't even read it), but I found your work to be a valuable tool every Christian parent should read.

solid and encouraging advice for biblical parenting

2008-04-27
My husband and I are thankful for this helpful book and can already see a difference in our children from our changed parenting methods. It's difficult to discipline our children, but it'll be evener harder in the years to come, if we do not and they were to become unruly, undisciplined members of society. We believe we are following the best plan for our family: God's plan.

MVP of the Christian Child rearing genre!

2008-04-08
This book is excellent! I love it because it works! My Children know that I love them enough to train them in the righteousness of God. My favorite part is the quick reference guide of verses that address specific negative behaviors that is located in the back of the book. I have also read Lou's book entitled 'The Heart of Anger'. They are both full of Love and Wisdom!

Required reading prior to preschool years! Lasts a lifetime!

2008-04-06
I am in the middle of this book and can not say enough good things. I have read Shepherding A Child's Heart and Withold Not Correction. While these books are excellent in themselves, Lou's book fills in between the lines. This book stresses the most important factor in disciplining your children which is to obey God. When a child misbehaves, discipline should not be to satisfy our own wants as parents, but God's will. The author even includes a WONDERFUL guide in the back of the book that lays out scripture to turn to when a child has gone against God's desire. If only it was that simple for grownups! Teach Them Diligently has held me accountable for my own sin of anger and lack of hiding God's word in my own heart. I am grateful to my Lord for bringing me in the path of those that shared this book with me. I often imagine if all of us parented this way how wonderful the world would be. Such patience. Such calmness. Such sincerity. Such teaching!

Biblically sound teaching, not sadism!

2008-04-06
Biblical spanking as described by Mr. Priolo is done without anger, in a controlled manner, and is preceded and followed by many words of loving instruction. The use of the term "sadism" to describe this process is wildly inappropriate. Unfortunately, those who do so apparently cannot conceive of the possibility that a parent might be able to carry out this process without losing control and crossing the line toward abuse. Perhaps this says far more about the critics who toss this term around than it does about Mr. Priolo and those who have benefitted greatly from his Biblically sound teaching.

One of the BEST out there on Parenting..Would HIGHLY RECOMMEND ALL HIS BOOKS!

2008-04-06
Deuteronomy 6:4-9. The most important commandment in all of Jewish Scripture is: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might." Jesus said that was the first and great commandment. And every Jew knew, just like I want every one of you to know, what comes next in this great text. "And these words which I command you shall be upon your heart, and you shall teach them diligently to your children." The first assignment a parent has after loving God is to store God's Word in his heart and teach it to his children.

Proverbs 13:24: "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him." Proverbs 19:18a: "Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction." Proverbs 22:15, "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it from him." Proverbs 23:13, 14: "Do not withhold discipline from your child; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol." Proverbs 29:15, 17, "The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother . . . Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart."

(hint: if the parenting books you have read or are reading do not speak HIGHLY of GOD's word or PROVOKE you to FAITH in HIM...then PUT IT DOWN!!! )

Lou did an outstanding Job in using scripture to encourage all his readers.. My heart is in fear for some of the reviews that I have read below... God in HIS word has set the standard for how we should discipline our children NOT the author, which is what I saw all through out this book!! THis book I believe not only PROVOKES me to FAITH in my FATHERS care over me , but it HAS DONE THE SAME FOR OUR 5 year old daughter..this will be in our family for the next generations to come!!!! great Job LOU! ( and Kim) :)