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"Discernment" Section Articles and Links to Online Resources About the Ezzo Method & Others

Articles

CRI responds to serious allegations from GFI

Why did the Christian Research Institute do a cover story on GFI?
Many have asked if GFI is a cult or have voiced concerns about their theology; CRI answers these questions.

Woman to Woman
by Helen E. Aardsma
Attention mothers: if you read only one article on this website, please read this one.
This article has probably had a greater impact on me than anything else I've ever read regarding my role as a mother.
It could very well be the most important article on this page and,
if followed prayerfully, will make reading the articles below not all that necessary.

Bottlefeeding, Guilt, and Breastfeeding Extremism
A review of Peggy Robin's Bottlefeeding Without Guilt (re-titled When Breastfeeding is Not an Option)

A Statement Regarding Gary Ezzo
and Growing Families International
The latest and presumably final version

Questions for GFI families who have "gone the distance"
Believe it or not, we're actually soliciting input
and testimonies from longterm users of GFI materials!

A note to those in search of likeminded families...
What should likemindedness really mean?

Catholicism and the Ezzos

Wise advice for babies?
Parenting book challenges standard medical practice
by Eric Patterson
reprinted from Boulder Weekly

Examining the Evidence for Cue Feeding of Breastfed Infants
by Lisa Marasco and Jan Barger, International Board Certified Lactation Consultants
[an updated version of Lisa Marasco's previous article]

An open response from Roy Maynard, author of "The Ezzos Know Best"
(WORLD Magazine , May 25/June 1, 1996)
to Gary Ezzo's previously publicly circulated criticism of the article.
Gary Ezzo's original rebuttal to the WORLD article has been removed from the GFI website.
The re-edited rebuttal, featuring a somewhat altered "interview" with Roy Maynard,
is reportedly available directly from GFI.

Preparation for Behavioral Pediatrics?
a critique of "Preparation for Parenting" (3rd edition)
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Some Concerns About the Ezzo Method
This article requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free here. If your browser does not allow you to retrieve this article, don't despair...

Some Concerns About the Ezzo Method
Now available, by popular demand, in HTML format!!!

In Response
Acrobat format; a response to the Ezzos' rebuttal of one of my articles. If your browser does not allow you to retrieve this, request here

Growing Kids: Is It God's Way?
An article by Lisa Marasco
If your browser does not allow you to retrieve this, request here

Whose Way, After All?
An article by Barbara Curtis, mother of eleven!

Coming Who Knows When: A Review of "To Train Up a Child"
OK, I know...I've been promising this one for years. A sneak preview:
I'm less than thrilled. The theology is murky. The techniques advocated are
too behavioristic for my tastes. Plus, I don't believe in pulling babies' hair
or hitting toddlers with toys. Other than that...I still probably
wouldn't recommend it.

Some Related Articles on our Online Conversations Page

Center of the Family Child Training & Sleep Training Feel right---act right? Gary Ezzo and Calvinism God is a God of Order "Prep" in the Real World Prooftexting Total Depravity and Infants

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