Debra's Random Thoughts

This article will be slightly different then the previous two. Although I am still using her own quotes to highlight Rebekah Pearl Anast...

Here is Rebekah's form letter. I wrote some comments about it, if you want to read them, my post follows this letter. My name is Rebekah...

A few years back there was an outcry in the British Homeschooling community over the possibility that the Pearls' might visit the U.K. a...

The first part of this series covered Rebekah Pearl’s childhood. This second part will cover her early adult hood until her marriage. To me,...

Not only do the Pearls hold their adult children up as a living testimony to the success of their child training methods but many of their c...

Even my chickens are laughing . . . well, actually it more like cackling, because they just laid another organic egg for my breakfast and th...

Here is an article from a woman whose parents used the Pearl's methods in their family. Tulip Girl has been very vocal about speaking o...

Four years ago a small child named Sean Paddock was killed by his mother before his fifth birthday. His adoptive mother, Lyn Paddock was a f...

There is an excellent series of articles over on the blog site, Abba's Little Girl, that deal with the sexual abuse that the blog owner ...

Despite homeschooling and being an exfundamentalists , I was unaware of the concept of either first time obedience or cheerful obedience. It...

On their website, No Greater Joy, the Pearls have a collection of various readers' questions and the responses from Michael and Debbi. T...

Below is a section taken from the Pearl's book To Train Up A Child, chapter nine. To avoid accusations that I am taking the writer'...

I’ve decided to cover the Pearls and their child rearing methods on my website. There are many excellent resources on the web about the Pear...

Purgatory is especially comforting to me. I believe that my mother was a Christian. Granted, I could not see into her heart, but she had a s...

This is neither an anti- nor prospanking article. My oldest son was diagnosed as ADHD and yes, we did spank him. With each successive child,...

My husband and I have always been a bit goofy with our kids. We both are just naturally silly people. One of our sons once described us as a...