John Rosemond's Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children

Rosemond, John

ISBN 10: 0836228065 / ISBN 13: 9780836228069

Published by Andrews & McMeel, Kansas City, 1989

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Signed by author on half-title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Rosemond's Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children
• Publisher: Andrews & McMeel, Kansas City
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0836228065
• ISBN 13: 9780836228069
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • Psychology & Self-Help

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Synopsis

Discusses a plan for child rearing based on authority, responsibility, and respect, and emphasizes the importance of limiting television viewing time

Reviews

Psychologist and syndicated columnist Rosemond ( Parent Power! ) asserts that rearing children can be "relatively easy and enjoyable" if parents follow his advice: take care of your marriage first, then the kids; expect children to obey and they will; make children accept responsibility for their behavior and for household chores; say no to your child and you will build character; restrict toys--too many will limit a youngster's imagination; and keep television-viewing to a minimum or youths will become passive and won't develop an interest in reading. Each chapter includes questions from parents, with Rosemond's replies. He is dogmatic ("I don't believe there's any justification for letting a preschool child watch any television at all"), prone to psychobabble ("give yourself permission to be creatively selfish") and excessively cute (instead of using the word "no" he writes about "Vitamin N"). Nonetheless, the book succeeds in presenting fresh, reasonable strategies that should help parents to resolve family conflicts and raise well-adjusted children.
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