The Land of Ozz

I am pleased to announce that there is now a place on the Internet where you can go to get the truth about authors Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo. The web site is Ezzotruth.com. The site is published by supporters of the Ezzos and includes a strong list of sponsors including many of my personal friends.

The Ezzotruth.com web site focuses on providing “…reliable information about Growing Families International (GFI), Gary Ezzo, Anne Marie Ezzo, or their parenting books, CDs and DVDs such as On Becoming Babywise or Growing Kids God’s Way…” As a class leader for the Ezzo teachings I get questions from time to time about rumors that circulate on the Internet about the Ezzos. Most of the stories come from propaganda web sites or from a small pack of folks who gather on forums for “Ezzo parenting philosophy discussions.” These forum sites are very much off balanced against the GFI (Growing Families International) material.

A few notable features of the Ezzotruth.com web site include responses to GFI critics including Dr. James Dobson of Focus on The Family, Dr. Matthew Aney, Christian Research Institute (CRI) articles, and several radical supporters of Attachment Parenting.

I am proud to have our testimony about the GFI material posted on the Ezzotruth.com web site. Here is a copy of our testimony as it reads on the Ezzotruth.com web site.

The Growing Kids Gods Way program has truly changed our family for the better. God has been working in our home and we believe that he has been working on us directly through the learning tools provided in Growing Kids Gods Way (GKGW) and the programs leading up to it. The one thing that Sherry and I each continue to repeat is how much our relationship with God has changed over the past two years. The second most significant change that has occurred is our husband-wife relationship. We have found peace and solid direction in the GKGW program.

We came to the Prep for Parenting program by what we thought was an accident. We had never heard of the program. Sherry became pregnant in 2002 and we had started looking for guidance on parenting. Sherry saw a class in the church Small Group Book titled “Preparation for Parenting”. We agreed that it would be as good of a place to start as any. Now we know that God put that Small Group Book in Sherry’s hands and lead her to the right page. We took Prep for Parenting and realized immediately that this was exactly what we needed. What we did not realize was how our lives would be changed by Prep for Parenting, Prep for Toddler, and Growing Kids Gods Way.

The common thing that Sherry and I realize is how much more we value our relationships with God. We have both become more diligent in our praying, Bible reading and witnessing as a result of GKGW. We have both come to realize that in order to be a better parent we must first become better children of God. Sherry said that the saying that Gary uses in the video “you will only be as good of a parent as you are a wife” could easily be replaced with “you will only be as good of a parent as you are a Christian”. That is not something that Sherry would have said two years ago. Now she believes it and tries to live it. I have found myself actually looking at people with a different attitude on Friday morning during my drive to work simply due to what I learned on Thursday night in our GKGW class.

Our marriage relationship has been improved through our learning in GKGW as well as our taking and facilitating previous classes. We have realized how important our marriage relationship is to our family’s future. We have become much better at communicating with each other as well as praying together. We never prayed together other than asking God to bless our food prior to getting involved in these classes. Our home is also a living example of what couch time can do for a child. We love to go on dates and were thrilled to have this program reinforce our desire to continue to grow our relationship with each other.

The GKGW program is a great building block for any family. It is amazingly clear to see how important GKGW is when looking around at the direction of so many people in our society. GKGW is contrary to everything that society teaches our educators and parents. GKGW is fundamentally the opposite of what Sherry was taught in her training to be an educator and to work with children. We believe that GKGW is balanced, rounded, common sense, and it speaks the truth. We love the fact that our child stands out in a positive way. We are pleased to hear compliments from strangers concerning our child’s behavior. Better than that, we believe that God is pleased to have other people affected in such a positive manner by our child’s actions. The most important thing that we believe is that our children are much more likely to grow up and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior as a result of the growth that our family is experiencing from Growing Kids Gods Way.

We thank God for bringing the Ezzos into our home.

Hank and Sherry, South Carolina
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I want to congratulate Tom and Evangeline Reed on this awesome Internet resource concerning Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo and the GFI Material.

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