📚 3 Books mentioned in "Part One: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany | BEHIND THE BASTARDS" of Behind the Bastards

You might think of him as like Dr. Spock, if you're old enough to remember Dr. Spock, not the one from Star Trek but like the child development doctor who was kind of huge. I think in the 80s and 90s, I think my parents had a Dr. Spock book or two around.

Robert compares Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber to Dr. Spock to illustrate Schreber's influence in the realm of child development during his time. Dr. Spock, specifically referring to Dr. Benjamin Spock and not the fictional character from Star Trek, was a significant figure in child development whose books were quite popular, especially in the 80s and 90s.

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I wrote a YA novel without any bad things—of course there are bad things; it's a novel and bad things have to happen in a story—called 'The Sapling Cage.' It's great, by the way. Robert actually read it; it is my favorite piece of your writing so far.

In this part of the podcast, Margaret Killjoy talks about her young adult novel, 'The Sapling Cage.' She expresses pride in the book, highlighting it as her favorite work so far, and notes that Robert, the co-host, also read and enjoyed it.

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There's a very popular book among the Christian right called To Train Up a Child, and the basis of it is you should, when children are infants, do stuff like lay them down on a mat, and if they like wiggle to such a point that any part of their body is off of it, you like whip them! Basically, you like beat them!

The host introduces 'To Train Up a Child' as a well-known book among the Christian right, which promotes using 'tough love' as a child-rearing method, highlighting its severe and harmful practices.

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