Blanket training

Blanket training is a type of corporal punishment used to discipline infants and toddlers. Proponents believe that blanket training trains very young children to stay on a blanket.^[1] Critics consider it a form of child abuse.^[2]

Blanket training is a method adapted from the methods encouraged in To Train Up a Child, a controversial^[3] parenting book ^[1] which includes and advocates techniques that have been linked to multiple child deaths.^[4][5]

To blanket train a child, a caretaker places the infant or toddler on a blanket and inflicts pain on the child when he or she attempts to leave the blanket.^[6] Proponents of blanket training^[7] believe that eventually the child will stay on the blanket without adult intervention or enforcement because the child has come to associate leaving the blanket with pain.^[1]

References

1. 1 2 3 Pearl, Michael & Debi. "To Train Up a Child". Archived from the original on November 4, 2010. 
2. ↑ Eckholm, Erik. "Preaching Virtue of Spanking, Even as Deaths Fuel Debate". The New York Times. 
3. ↑ Lee, Morgan. "Petition to Ban Controversial Christian Parenting Book From Amazon Nears 100,000 Signatures". 
4. ↑ http://www.babble.com/mom/to-train-up-a-child-teaches-punishment-that-kills-kids/  Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. ↑ http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2011/october/when-child-discipline-becomes-abuse.html  Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. ↑ Wicksell, Dustin. "Police:Duggars used a rod to spank their kids". The Inquisitr News. 
7. ↑ Benner, Wende. "Here's how the Duggars' patriarchal homeschool world teaches kids to shame sex abuse victims". Raw Story.