fromchaostocosmos:
chiribomb:
sonypraystation:
kathy with the scorching tea
Lazy-ass child
anyone else really disturbed by the hashtag train up a child
no seriously what the fuck
I suspect a loooot of people don’t know that “train up a child” is a reference to a book/method of raising children that is centered around regular and extensive child abuse, usually through beating the child in question.
This image/screencap isn’t amusing or charming. I’m sure people thought it was “funny” because it’s super christian and therefore weird or incongruous with how we think kids should be/should act/alien to our own childhoods, but the reality is that that mom just referenced a book that probably means she beats or starves her son. [Note that the death cases have often been white xtian fundamentalists who have adopted black/African children.]
If you’re not familiar with the Pearls and their book To Train Up a Child, here’s some links, which tend to be from horrified Christian parents. I can’t confirm or deny these are all good websites, but I know these are mostly about horror at the TTUAC method. Trigger Warning for Child abuse and Murder:
etc etc. This post isn’t funny or meme-worthy, it’s a sign that whoever knows this lady should consider calling CPS.
Listen I know nothing about whatever book that is, I’ve never heard of it in my life and I grew up Christian and I’m still Christian. She was probably referencing, I don’t know, the BIBLE considering the first thing I thought of was that verse in proverbs that talks about training your children to do right while they’re young so they’ll do right when they’re adults but you know whatever. Like I definitely don’t condone any kind of child abuse (obviously) but assuming she’s referencing this book instead of something much more widely known is like accusing everyone who offhandedly mentions making a deal of referencing “the art of the deal” and being a trump supporter. There’s not really a correlation.