Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The New Dare to Discipline
James C. Dobson · 2017
🎙 Narrated by Mike Trout
71/100
👍 Worth It
This is the trusted classic so many Christian parents lean on for consistent, loving discipline, and it's full of practical, doable techniques. The spanking chapter is where I'd slow down — it's a real point of disagreement even among faith-friendly readers, so go in with eyes open. Mike Trout's narration is steady and authoritative and easy to follow along with.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Discusses spanking/corporal punishment as a disciplinary method — contested by modern child-development research; disclose to readers. We still scored it 71; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Mike Trout delivers a steady, authoritative reading well suited to the instructional tone (abridged Tyndale House edition).
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing75
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy55
Hype vs delivers62
Age-fit80
Human-eye read76
Penny’s verdict71
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