(RNS) — For Tia Levings, it was blanket training.
A method where a parent places an infant or toddler on a blanket and punishes them — often by hitting them — if they stray, blanket training was a line Levings refused to cross, and a technique that made her question the teachings that enveloped her as a young mother in the Christian patriarchy movement.
“We were not to listen to our instincts,” said Levings, who raised her...