Parenting by the Book - John Rosemond

Parenting by the Book

By John Rosemond

  • Release Date: 2007-09-25
  • Genre: Christianity
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 47 Ratings

Description

Picture respectful, responsible, obedient children who entertain themselves without television or video games, do their own homework, and have impeccable manners. A pie-in-the-sky fantasy? Not so, says family psychologist and bestselling author John Rosemond. Any parent who so desires can grow children who fit that description -- happy, emotionally healthy children who honor their parents and their families with good behavior and do their best in school.

In the 1960s, American parents stopped listening to their elders when it came to child rearing and began listening instead to professional experts. Since then, raising children has become fraught with anxiety, stress, and frustration. The solution, says John, lies in raising children according to biblical principles, the same principles that guided parents successfully for hundreds of years. They worked then, and they still work now!

Through his nationally syndicated newspaper column and eleven books, John has been helping families raise happy, well-behaved children for more than thirty years. In Parenting by The Book, which John describes as both a "mission and a ministry," he brings parents back to the uncomplicated basics. Herein fi nd practical, Bible-based advice that will help you be the parent you want to be, with children who will be, as the Bible promises, "a delight to your soul" (Pro. 29-17). As a bonus, John also promises to make you laugh along the way.

Reviews

  • Parenting By The Book

    5
    By Principal7
    Superior and desperately needed advice in rearing secure and respectful children, who have appropriately ingrained character! As a long time public school educator, parent, and grandparent I can attest to the serious and almost unbelievable decline in the ability of public schools to properly educate children because of the disrespect and literally barbaric actions of an overwhelming number of students reared under the guise of psychological "illnesses". These "illnesses", give the students and their parents excuses for bad behavior and for creating atmospheres in almost every classroom which keep good, disciplined students from learning and teachers from being able to teach. I cannot tell you the times my assistant and I have had to go to a classroom to try and coax a screaming, biting, kicking, thrashing child from under the teacher's desk; or try to stop other eight to ten year olds from running into the highway simply because something did not go their way. Think I'm in an inner city school? Think again. I am in a highly revered, award winning school of upper middle class children. People are flocking to our school because of its glowing reputation. Regular parents have no idea what occurs in their child's class almost daily, not because of any sort of cover-up, but simply because the well behaved kids have just learned to live with the large number of undisciplined, selfish, ego maniacs in their classes. If you want to rear children who have character and who have confidence and children who make you smile in your old age, please read this book with an open mind and a determination to go against the insane flow of modern day child rearing.
  • Fantastic

    5
    By GDHouse
    A great book. Learned about myself as a person and as a parent. Learned about my weaknesses an strengths. Learned about the flaws of modern parenting an the visible effects they have on society. Looking forward to improving myself as a person and as a parent and leading my children to a life of integrity and character.
  • Best Parenting Book EVER!

    5
    By Momofthreeblessings
    The ideas in this book make perfect sense. It is simple, practical and very instructive. Implementing these ideas has taken 95% of the frustration out of parenting.