The Amazon Prime series, ‘Shiny Happy People,’ shows reality TV stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar advocating a controversial parenting method to break their babies’ ‘rebelli…
It’s hard to know which is the worst thing that reality TV parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are shown doing to their 19 children in the explosive four-part documentary, “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets,” which premiered on Amazon Prime over the weekend.
Indeed, parents who have raised very young children have expressed alarm over the documentary’s depiction of some of the child-rearing practices espoused by the Duggars and other leaders associated with the IBLP. One of those practices, known as “blanket training,” is imposed on babies as young as 6 months and involves an effort to “break” a baby’s “rebellious spirit,” as one former IBLP member said.
What it took to inspire obedience was to instill fear in the children from a young age, sometimes by hitting them or going to other extreme measures, ex-IBLP members said. Michelle Duggar wrote about blanket training her children in her 2008 book, “The Duggars: 20 and Counting!” An excerpt appears in the second episode.
The Duggars are closely associated with controversial Baptist preacher Michael Pearl and his wife Debi Pearl, who wrote the 1994 book, “To Train Up a Child,” the documentary shows.
As explained by countless studies and articles by pediatricians and child development experts, babies generally start reaching for objects by four months, while babies may start crawling at any time from six to 10 months, though some babies skip crawling altogether and go straight to pulling themselves and walking.
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