Katey Duggar is a mom of four now that her twin daughters have arrived, and it appears she’s looking for a little parenting advice – but is she going to the wrong source? In a new “Day in the Life” video she shared on Instagram, Katey was reading a controversial book on parenting and discipline, and now, it’s causing her critics some concern for her kids’ safety.
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Katey shared the new video on Tuesday.
In the footage she shared on Instagram, Katey walked her followers through what a day in her life parenting four children under the age of 3 is like, starting from when she wakes up and begins pumping breast milk and feeding her oldest two kids, 2-year-old Truett and 1-year-old Nora.
She took a break to pump and read a book.
Later in the morning, Katey had to pump again while the twins napped, so she took out the book she was reading to entertain her during her downtime. The cover showed that it’s called For the Love of Discipline: When the Gospel Meets Tantrums and Time-Outs by Sara Wallace.
“Love this book by the way,” Katey shared.
The book includes some controversial parenting tactics.
The description of the book on Amazon states that For the Love of Discipline provides “practical tools, specific skills, a solid gospel foundation, and specific day-by-day things you can say and do to make disciplining your children intentional and consistent.”
But according to reviews of the book, it accomplishes that by offering suggestions such as hitting, discouraging kids from saying “no” under any circumstances, and even locking toddlers in their bedrooms.
“The author talks about locking two year olds in cribs in a closed room for ‘time out.’ A child struggling to adjust to a new baby is punished for having a meltdown when another child destroys a project he is working on,” one reviewer wrote. “Spanking is suggested throughout the book. If you want to treat your child as a whole human, with their own feelings and thoughts, this isn’t the book for you.”
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Critics on Reddit aren’t impressed, either.
In one thread discussing the book, more than one Duggar critic suggested that Katey should spend less time worrying about discipline when her children are so young.
“Instead of reading this disgusting book, maybe Katey should take her kids to the playground and spend time with them. Oh wait … she’s training Nora to be the new Jana, so she can’t,” one commenter wrote.
Knowing the Duggars have often taken part in controversial parenting methods such as blanket training, it’s not surprising to see that Katey would be interested in a book like this – but that doesn’t make it any less alarming.
