Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-05-07
Books mentioned on Part One: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany
Robert sits down with Margaret killjoy to talk about Moritz Schreber, the pseudo scientific parenting guru who strapped children into torture devices and helped prepare Germany for the Nazis. (4 Part Series) See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed Dr. Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock and others, To train up a child by Michael Pearl, and Memoirs of my nervous illness by Daniel Paul Schreber.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dr. Spock's baby and child care
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Discussed“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.”
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To train up a child
To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debbie Pearl is a controversial 1994 self-published parenting guide that advocates for immediate, unquestioning obedience and harsh disciplinary practices for infants and children.
Discussed“there's a very popular book among the Christian right called to train up a child”
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Memoirs of my nervous illness
Discussed“and spent years institutionalized only being released in 1899 at which point he wrote A Memoir about his nervous illness”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Sapling Cage
“bad things have to happen in a novel called the sapling cage”
Plugged Sapling Cage
“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.”