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

by John Rosemond

Book Overview

"In a logical, well-articulated manner, Rosemond provides many examples, making this a practical rather than philosophical reference . . . Rosemond's thorough explanations and real-life examples make... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836228065
• ISBN13: 9780836228069
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Balanced, Commonsensical Vision of Childrearing

Sometimes parents are just not disciplined enough to discipline their children and we all need a plan to help us with that! It is very easy to spoil our children and the price children pay and parents suffer are ungrateful, self-centered and irresponsible behaviors. Child psychologist, John Rosemond, through his own trial-and-error child raising experiences has provided us with his NEW SIX-POINT PLAN FOR RAISING HAPPY, HEALTHY CHILDREN. He sets out to balance "my children come first" style with "the parent-centered family" mentality and restore children's respect for parents. Other equally sensible points include "putting marriage first, expecting children to obey, expecting and enabling children to contribute meaningfully to family and giving them everything they need along with a conservative amount of what they simply want (3)". The last two chapters deal with Toys and Television and the point is to keep it simple so kids can learn to entertain themselves with their own creativity.

His advice improved my child's behavior in one week

While some of Mr. Rosemond's advice is hard for a Mom like me to swallow (kids don't need to routinely sleep in your bed-I'm guilty here), my 4-year old only-child ruled our household. I think Mr. Rosemond is absolutely correct on most all of his advice, especially about dragging kids to adult-centered activities. My daughter begged me to stop dance lessons and gymnastics, but I thought that it was "good" for her. I realize now that children need down time to be creative and resourceful. I also don't feel nearly as guilty when I tell her I can't sit in the floor and play with her. She needs to learn how to entertain herself!! Mr. Rosemond's advice is old-fashioned, but my daughter's behavior has completely turned around once we started implementing his suggestions.

The Best Parenting Book EVER

After reading this book, I realized all the other parenting books are useless. It all comes down to what many parents are NOT giving their children: discipline and consequences for everything they do wrong. My houshold of 2 small children (and I have a baby also) changed dramatically in 2 weeks. My life is unbelievably better and I am in complete control of my kids 100% of the time, at home and in public. This book made me realize, since I had my head in the sand, that my 4 year old was going to grow up to be a brat. Now I'm confident I'm going to raise her to be an important and helpful part of society. I taught middle school for 6 years and realize how many parents need to read this one and only book. It's life changing. Many kids have such unstructured homes and they live with parents who don't know what great harm they're doing to their kids by coddling them, making sure their self-esteem is good, uplifting them, feeling sorry for them, and bailing them out when what they really need is consistent discipline and consequences.

Excellent - back to basics

I was thrilled with this book and agreed with 95% of his advice. John Rosemond removes guilt, babying, whininess, and overstimulation from the parenting equation. It freed me, as a pregnant woman, to parent in the way I instinctively would. His theories make complete sense and seem to align with a child's natural development (i.e. how can a 2 year old be reasoned with, or why should we ask a child to "please" do something, therefore giving him/her the option). There are WAY too many overly indulged children in America now - all parents, regardless of philosophy, should read this book.

A Big Dose of Common Sense

Mr. Rosemond doesn't say anything incredibly new or earth shattering. He brings back old ideas that people did naturally before the "new science of parenting." It seems like the more parents I listen too, I hear extremes on raising children. Mr. Rosemond reminds us that there is a middle ground. My daughter is only 2 and we have used this middle ground full of common sense and have had fantastic results with our little girl. If your a parent and feel overwhelmed by all the advice floating around out there about parenting, I would highly suggest you read this book. It will bring you back down to earth and give you some middle ground. He takes logical and intelligent approaches to self-esteem, spanking, television, chores and allowance to name a few. It's quick read, like hearing old wisdom from a generation before us. Highly recommended!