Essentially, you place a baby on a blanket with a toy and if they try to leave the blanket area, you hit them.

So... it’s entrapment PLUS corporal punishment for BABIES?

The thing is, the Duggars are actually incredibly good at making their image friendly and relatable. They only talk about the “nice” parts of their religion on the show, or they sugar coat. The sugar coated version is, “We blanket train our kids, which just means we teach the babies to stay on a blanket and play…

Yeah, apparently you can also lure them off the blanket. So fucked up.

I thought blanket training was placing a baby on a blanket WITHOUT a toy, placing a toy off the blanket just out of reach, and then hitting the child when they try to reach the toy.

There’s the water torture too. Baby cries, you stick its face under a running faucet until it stops crying. Remove baby, when it cries again, you stick its face under the faucet. Repeat until the baby no longer cries (or it dies).

If you “want” to learn more try googling “To Train Up A Child” by Debi and Michael Pearl. They demand immediate and total obedience from children, and they encourage corporal punishment to get it. There are multiple lawsuits against them, and their book is frequently brought up in court when adoptive parents “punish”…

What a perfect way to raise a child who won’t fight back from a molester!

Every time I see this photo (at top) it creeps me the fuck out. It’s that “You are my world, my life, my all, I would DIE without you!” look. And him just drinking it in. Ugh.

Absolutely. This is fucking crazy and I feel for these kids. They never stood a chance.

I have enough feelings about spanking or swatting young children as is, but infants should NEVER EVER receive corporal punishment. Blanket training is fucking abuse.

“Blanket training” involves teaching babies to submit through physical violence. Essentially, you place a baby on a blanket with a toy and if they try to leave the blanket area, you hit them.

Do I even want to know what “blanket train” is?

There is nothing about this family that isn’t skin-crawlingly creepy. The weird vacant expressions, the 1980s hair done to please some pervy old man, the stepford smiles, the fact that they “blanket train” (aka hit) BABIES. It’s all so weird.

Yeah, no. They’re suing to protect all the Joshes of the world.

A friend sent me this video first thing this morn and I’m kind of wrecked for the day. My first baby had a similar story that didn’t have a happy ending.

Good Morning, first things first:

I’m glad LA Children’s Hospital was able to help Kimmel’s baby. They do great work there. My son had open heart surgery there days after he was born and he’s had several more since that time and the people at LA Children’s Hospital treated him like family. It’s never an easy time for a parents to be at a hospital…

Glad I’m working alone today because I cried at my computer.

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